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When I was first started working in New York, I had a friend who convinced me that the best way to become a better conversationalist was to spend a lot of time in bars. Part of the rationale was that other than drinking or maybe playing pool, all you do at a bar is talk to people, many of whom you don't actually know. Is this a valid strategy? The problem is, it depends on what kind of person you are. If you like that kind of slightly alcohol-fueled intimacy or quick sharing, it's fine...
...preparation for the upcoming Ivy League Championships, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team invited Northeastern University to Blodgett Pool for a practice meet on Friday night...
...each year. But getting medications from their makers into the hands of their takers is largely the job of a wholesaling oligopoly. Cardinal and its principal rivals--San Francisco--based McKesson Corp. and AmerisourceBergen, based in Valley Forge, Pa.--control 90% of the market, acting as middlemen to pool purchasing power and to guarantee 24/7 access to millions of medications...
...Genting, operator of Resorts World Sentosa, recouping its $4.5 billion investment won't be easy. Even though it will be one of two exclusive casino operators, unlike Macau or Las Vegas, where there is fierce competition within a much larger pool, analysts and investors have set their initial expectations for Sentosa's gaming revenues "far too high," says Citigroup analyst Dominic Noel-Johnson. To meet Citigroup's relatively conservative 2011 gaming revenue estimate of $1.2 billion for Resorts World Sentosa - more than a third less than the consensus of other brokerage houses - every single foreign tourist expected to come...
...Barker never thought he'd have to live in his truck. Four months ago, the plumber was in a one-bedroom apartment in California's San Fernando Valley, with a pool and a Jacuzzi. Then, on his birthday in October, he and 199 other plumbers were laid off by their union, Local 761 in Burbank. Now Barker's son sleeps on the sofa of his cousin's one-bedroom Hollywood apartment, and Barker sleeps on the roof of the apartment building - or in his 2003 Ford Ranger pickup. "I'm 47, and I've never lived in my car," says...