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...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure
...Securities and Exchange Commission is currently investigating the backdating procedures of more than 130 companies, according to the Journal, in the largest corporate-fraud probe in decades...
...That will be a very tall order for the veteran politician. Jefferson is the target of a federal probe into allegations that he shook down a Kentucky entrepreneur for $100,000 in bribes and lucrative contracts for a business owned by Jefferson's wife in exchange for the Congressman's help in procuring contracts for the Kentucky technology firm, iGate, in West Africa. Two people connected with the case, including former iGate CEO Vernon Jackson, have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with investigators...
AARP's torrid growth hasn't come without controversy. Critics have long argued that the organization stretches the concept of nonprofit; an IRS probe in the '80s resulted in the creation of AARP Services--and a $135 million fine...
...Frank Bainimarama had been threatening to stage a coup unless Laisenia Qarase's government abandoned plans to pardon those behind the abortive coup and mutiny of 2000. But some in Fiji say Bainimarama, who during the mutiny narrowly escaped assassination by rebel troops, has another motive: ending a police probe into the killings of four soldiers from the mutinous special-forces unit...