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...Google's credit, there are companies that have made far worse bargains in China and haven't got half the public spanking for it. In December the Chinese government took offense at the contents of a blog hosted by Microsoft's MSN service. Microsoft promptly clamped it shut, noting that the company had to obey the law of the land. Earlier last year Beijing investigated a man who used Yahoo! for his e-mail. Yahoo! promptly handed over his computer's IP address. Yahoo! now has one less customer: the man got 10 years for leaking "state secrets...
...treatment facility in Baja, Mexico. Why would someone with access to the world?s best health care move across the continent and then outside of U.S. territory for medical attention? On Friday, Mexican authorities, after inspecting the facility after the death of Mrs. King from complications of ovarian cancer, shut down the Hospital Santa Monica, citing a number of what they described as unauthorized procedures. No exact count of American patients in Mexican clinics exists, but the website Quackwatch.org which tries to police the medical industry for unethical and illegal conduct, estimates that as many as 10,000 patients check...
...Mexican officials have tried to monitor both licensed and unlicensed clinics in the past without much success. In 2001, Baja regulators tried to shut down at least a dozen clinics. Investigators were hindered by a shortage of investigators and by patients who didn?t know how to properly fill out claims, or simply refused to. Critics say corruption also plays a part. ?A few years ago a Mexican official shut down about 20 of these clinics,? says Quackwatch.org chairman Dr. Stephen Barrett. A retired psychiatrist, Barrett has no faith in Baja?s clinics. ?After the shut down, the government changed...
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...work on a lone defender with a full assortment of low-post moves have been limited. Since Stehle emerged as the team’s best player in the 2003-04 season and Cusworth returned from injury last year, opposing defenses have continually drawn up schemes to shut down the Crimson’s powerful interior scorers. When the ball gets deep to either of Harvard’s big men, the double team is usually coming along with it, a strategy aimed at forcing the ball away from the Crimson’s top assets...