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...disclosure, investment banker Chen says it makes sense to invest there. To play it safe, he says, buy only the 10 or so Chinese stocks traded in the U.S. as ADRS. The vast majority of companies in China are burdened with excessive debt, but the ADRS are in better shape. His favorites: Huaneng Power, Shanghai Petrochemical and China Southern Airlines...
...shield a President to whom she didn't seem much attached. But her public vote of no confidence in her task force's probe makes it harder now for her to argue that a special counsel isn't necessary, despite her latest effort to whip the team into shape. Washington was surprised in March when Reno chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically sensitive investigation. From the start there were tensions between Ingersoll and the FBI agents she worked with. Building on her experience with low-level government graft...
...drugs' manufacturers and distributors, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, told physicians to stop prescribing them and took the dramatic step of pulling both medications from the market. The reason for such haste: new evidence had revealed that as many as 30% of Redux and fen/phen users could develop abnormalities in the shape of their heart valves--changes that could eventually lead to serious cardiac weakness and perhaps even death...
Stephan would like to question Rees-Jones again. But the ex-paratrooper reportedly tired quickly. It is not clear when he may be in shape to meet the judge again. Meanwhile, investigators are looking at the possibility that the fatal Mercedes may have collided lightly with another car in front of it, causing Paul to lose control. They are intrigued by taillight fragments from a Fiat Uno found near the tunnel entrance. Skidmarks, pieces of the Mercedes' headlight and scratches on its right side also support this idea, as does some eyewitness testimony...
...case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust, calls the purchase "highly irregular," given that the fund for taking care of well-established parks is in "desperate shape." And California Democratic Congressman George Miller says he finds no justification for paying millions to a President who railed against pork...