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...media is smarter. The largest media companies are genuinely conglomerates in the old-fashioned sense of the word. They are made up of, in many cases, well over a dozen very different businesses that have nothing to do with each other, and many of those businesses are facing very serious and fundamental threats to their well-being that require significant management attention, and management attention is the most scarce resource at any company. I think the right answer is for these businesses to get more focused. That's generally the direction that they're going. Viacom and CBS split...
...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...
...public gatherings, the closing of all 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...
...Where were the law schools? Where were the deans?” Nader asked. “We’re seeing a very serious decay of our legal system...
...become not only Detroit's first openly gay elected official, but its city council president when voters here go to the polls Tuesday. But the flashy former television reporter has an unpleasant new distinction: Pugh recently acknowledged that his three-story home near downtown Detroit has been foreclosed, raising serious questions about his business acumen at a time when this city is on the brink of financial collapse...