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...halt. Last week's government figures showed that the country only narrowly avoided a return to recession?defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product?with 0.1% gdp growth in the third quarter following a 0.1% contraction in the second. "We are entering a slow patch, and there is no obvious exit," says Peter Morgan, chief economist at HSBC Securities in Tokyo...
...backer of the rival Blu-ray format, was taking solace in its forecast that the European market for sets had been seriously underestimated: HDTV adoption could reach 20 million by 2008 - four times previous industry estimates. Drug Delay A U.S. regulatory panel unanimously rejected Intrinsa, Proctor & Gamble's testosterone patch that claims to be a female version of Viagra for some menopausal women. The panel wanted more data on long-term health risks before letting the product go to market...
...company before a roomful of financial analysts in Milan. He painted a rosy picture: sales and earnings were up, debt was under control, and the firm was awash in cash. Satisfied that he'd reassured the financiers, Ferraris hoped the worst was over. "It was my job to patch up relations with the market," he told Time in an interview at his lawyer's Milan office. Then his doubts started to pile up. First, Ferraris says, he couldn't understand why the company was paying so much to service its debt; the interest payments seemed far higher than warranted...
...with lazy eye, or amblyopia. A study in Ophthalmology found that kids who got atropine eyedrops twice on weekends improved their vision as much as children who got drops every day. What's more, the weekend drop treatment turned out to be about as beneficial as wearing an eye patch daily...
...machines used in Georgia in 2002 were produced by Diebold, one of the largest voting machine manufacturers in the country. Shortly before the 2002 election, Diebold administered “patches” to 22,000 voting machines across the state of Georgia. These patches were never independently reviewed by any authority; even Georgia’s independent certifier, Dr. Brit Williams, merely accepted an assurance “by the vendor that the patch did not impact any of the things that we had previously tested on the machine.” Williams also admitted that he had never...