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...something they only paid $580 million for. How can that be bad?" And the answer to that is: Given that Fox Interactive Media group, of which MySpace is a part, actually lost money this year even after the short-term Google ad-deal windfall, $580 million doesn't seem like such a bargain. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Home sales and prices seem to be on the mend - but the foreclosure crisis marches on. TIME's Barbara Kiviat spoke with Rick Sharga, vice president of RealtyTrac, a firm that counts foreclosures, to find out what we might expect moving forward...
...most part, however, doctors are happy that anesthetics indeed work and seem to be safe. Used at the right doses in healthy people, the drugs rarely cause serious complications or side effects; the risk of death in patients undergoing general anesthesia, for example, is 1 in 250,000. But recent inquiries into how these strange chemicals act on the cellular level have uncovered a troubling long-term possibility: that general anesthetics may potentially contribute to cognitive impairment in vulnerable patients such as the very young and very...
...schools for three weeks, and various travel restrictions. The strict measures come at a critical time in the Ukrainian presidential campaign, with Tymoshenko closely trailed by opposition leader Victor Yanukovich in the polls. Although we realize that the spread of H1N1 is a serious health issue, these measures seem extreme and dubious given the election climate. Ukraine’s swine flu policy needs to be better justified or called...
...many countries. H1N1 is a new virus whose timing, duration, and severity are still uncertain. Moreover, the treatment of this disease is difficult, especially in countries like Ukraine whose medical infrastructure does not equal that of other Western countries. The severity of the disease in Ukraine, however, does not seem to merit the drastic steps the government has taken. Although national health officials have cited 33 flu deaths in support of the measure, they have not definitively specified how many of these deaths were a result of swine flu and how many were a result of other viruses. Additionally...