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...steadily built a presence around the city. On the edge of the city, vehicles laden with supplies destined for US and NATO troops, and the bridge they rumble across, have been attacked. Pilfered contents are open sale at Sitara Market, on the border with the Khyber tribal agency. A spate of kidnappings and murders have taken place in well-heeled neighborhoods. And even in the Lady Reading Hospital, where Zubair Khan and others injured were taken, doctors have been subject to threats. They now all wear the traditional shalwar kameez after the Taliban ordered them to abandon western clothing. (Read...
...meantime, the FDA has proposed a massive overhaul of the guidance it gives on drug use by pregnant women. Prompted by a spate of birth defects caused by thalidomide, the notorious morning-sickness drug, the agency since 1979 has classified drugs in one of five pregnancy-related categories, with A being the safest and X being the least necessary (like Accutane, an acne treatment associated with birth defects). Category B has pretty positive safety data, and D encompasses chemotherapy and other drugs whose benefits may outweigh the risks to the fetus. And then there's Category C, which covers...
...employees in the past year in order to cut costs. And layoffs in the financial-services business are expected to continue - American Express just announced it will lay off 4,000 workers in its latest round of cutbacks. But in one area banks are set to make a spate of hires. The pay is likely to be good, and the hours will be part-time. But unfortunately, most of us won't qualify. Under pressure from government regulators and institutional investors, banks are being forced to remake their corporate boards. The companies are being told they need to add more...
Hurricanes and housing busts have already battered South Florida's image as an earthly paradise. But Miami's reputation for dysfunction is on display again this spring as the Obama Administration shifts health-care reform into high gear - and a spate of studies slams the Magic City as the poster child for exorbitant medical costs. This week the Milliman Medical Cost Index listed the 2008 average private-provider costs for a Miami family of four - $20,282 - as the highest among the 14 major U.S. cities it studied, adding that more than 40% of that amount came out of Miamians...
...save money, the Chakrabortys stopped going out to nightclubs, not long before a spate of so-called "moral policing" attacks in which women were assaulted in public by small groups of unidentified men for wearing jeans and sleeveless tops. "I have a tough time getting out of the house," Soma says, making it difficult for her to find friends or new professional contacts. They don't want the government to bail them out, but they do want a city that understands and encourages their ambitions. (See pictures of the tempestuous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of India...