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...cars, including the Pajero, to fix defects that it had kept secret for more than a decade. As the scandal has widened, Japan's fifth largest carmaker has come to be seen as a case study of a self-serving corporation that systematically concealed safety problems to protect its brand. Mitsubishi's reputation has become so tarnished in Japan that industry executives and analysts now openly question its ability to stay in business. "The probability of survival is quite small," says Kunihiko Shiohara, a managing director at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo...
...WHAT YOU INCLUDE IN YOUR DIET IS AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT YOU EXCLUDE. There are at least a thousand substances that help protect against chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer. With few exceptions, those protective substances are found in good carbs such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes...
...There's a reason why we sign these treaties--to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties, so when Americans are captured, they're not tortured." SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, in an angry exchange with Attorney General John Ashcroft, during testimony about a Justice Department memo in which lawyers argued the U.S. was not bound by international treaties against torture while interrogating suspected members of al-Qaeda...
...suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that "the purpose of declassification review is to protect intelligence sources, methods and other classified matters which, if disclosed, could be helpful to adversaries, like weapons proliferators and terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism." Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. "The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA’s excessive redactions to the report," Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said...
...case is giving the law's many foes plenty of ammo. France's Visible Hand Who's better positioned to set prices - the market, or French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy? Consumer groups and even some supermarket chains have long complained that a 1996 law designed to protect small retailers has hiked prices. Last week Sarkozy agreed, but instead of changing the "Galland law," he brokered a deal between retail chains and suppliers that will cut the price of some 4,000 items, from baby food to toilet paper, by an average of 2% in September and another 1% in January...