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Less than a week after the British government sketched an $850 billion plan to steady a nervous banking sector and kick-start a recovery, the details are emerging. Following a flurry of meetings over the weekend, the British Treasury said Monday that it plans to spend as much as $63 billion bolstering the capital bases of three of the country's largest banks, partially nationalizing once mighty lenders in the process. "Today's plan is unprecedented," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at a Downing Street press conference, "but essential...
...while the best way to spur vitamin D production in the body is exposure to sunlight - typically about 10 or 15 minutes at a time a few times a week - it's not always the easiest. Some climates have less sunlight than others, and people either don't spend enough time outdoors or wear sunscreen when they do, which prevents synthesis of vitamin...
...People who need medicine for malaria have no money and hence no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. “Drug companies spend 10 times as much money on male baldness products as they do on malaria drugs...
...maybe I’m not alone. If you “spend more time than you think you should surfing the Net,” “feel you have a problem limiting the time you spend on the Net,” “find it hard to stay away from the Net for several days at a time,” “find particular areas of the Net, or types of files, hard to resist,” “have trouble controlling your impulses to purchase items, products, or services...
...health of the bars’ customers. Furthermore, smoking in these bars—unlike smoking in the restaurants covered by the previous ban—does not pose a risk to nonsmokers. Customers at a cigar bar go there solely in order to smoke, or at least to spend time in the company of smokers. Eliminating the presence of cigar bars does nothing but redirect the deliberate inhalation of smoke that takes place at these bars elsewhere. The presence of cigar bars might even reduce the amount of secondhand smoke that nonsmokers are exposed to, since the alternative...