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...first quarter, but don't tell Samsung. Its sales jumped 49%, making it the world's third-largest phone maker. Taming The Bucking Bull H Merrill Lynch will pay a $100 million penalty and make its analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave of the future by pledging $2 billion to develop an online game network and the Xbox. Family Corrections H A judge ordered the return of a $1 billion stake...
...spokesperson Robin Herman said the school began to address problems with research oversight before the federal probe had issued its final report...
...Friend of Bernie outside Mississippi. When Ebbers, under pressure from WorldCom's board, announced his resignation last week, the company was sinking under $28 billion in debt, a shriveling stock (which closed at $1.79 last week after peaking at $64.50 in mid-1999) and a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the more than $400 million that WorldCom recently loaned or guaranteed to loan to Ebbers at a charitable 2.15% interest rate. Many disgruntled WorldCom execs were hoping that the new CEO, John Sidgmore, would run the company not from Clinton but from the MCI division offices in Ashburn...
Meanwhile, research teams are scrambling to create animal models for autism in the form of mutant mice. They are beginning to examine environmental factors that might contribute to the development of autism and using advanced brain-imaging technology to probe the deep interior of autistic minds. In the process, scientists are gaining rich new insights into this baffling spectrum of disorders and are beginning to float intriguing new hypotheses about why people affected by it develop minds that are strangely different from our own and yet, in some important respects, hauntingly similar...
...commission, chaired by former FBI and CIA director William Webster, reports the FBI never followed up on these clues with a systematic and thorough probe of Hanssen's finances, even though individual background investigators pointed out inconsistencies and anomalies they had observed in his case...