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...prospect of facing Begleiter. "He'll call big raises and reraises with hands that no pro would play," says pro Phil Hellmuth, who is coaching Shulman. He calls Begleiter "a loose cannon" who could lose all of his chips to Shulman in a single hand. "At some point he's going to make a mistake...
...business tougher than it was before. But newspapers used to be so profitable, it made newspaper managers terribly lazy. Even today the margins at most small local newspapers are still 20%. McClatchy is 20%, Lee is 20% and Gannett, if you count out USA Today, is 20%. At some point this may all change, but it's much harder to kill that kind of franchise...
...what's the big take-away? We're finally at the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and be reasonably sure it's not an oncoming train. But there is more pain to come. We're not finished with this cycle...
...researchers, including Lisa Wise-Faberowski, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pediatric cardiology at the University of Colorado, Denver, think the effect in humans won't be easy to show. At the ASA conference, Wise-Faberowski devoted her presentation to chiding researchers for worrying prematurely about "anesthesia-induced neurotoxicity," pointing out that it has been seen only in "cell cultures and lab animals." If anesthetics have always been neurotoxic, one slide in her presentation asked, "Why is it only an issue now?" She and others point out that non-human testing of anesthetic safety has an unreliable history. Ten years...
...Ambassador to Sri Lanka Patricia Butenis. "The U.S. authorities should not exert procedures on [Fonseka]," Bogollagama said. "The interview should not take place." The Sri Lankan government believes that despite Fonseka's status as a green-card holder, the U.S. does not have any jurisdiction over him at this point because he entered the country on a Sri Lankan passport. "General Fonseka is a citizen of Sri Lanka and he holds a diplomatic passport from Sri Lanka," said Bogollagama. The minister said that Fonseka could not divulge privileged information he knew of the war and its conduct without approval from...