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...that's all changing. Everyone's got a stake in getting human health right--whether families and individuals simply trying to stay well or governments trying to build a functioning health-care system that doesn't break the bank. With so much on the line, no one can afford to take options off the table...
Dragging religion into clinical medicine, argues Sloan, is bad for both. Too much of the research is sloppy and funded by folks who have a stake in finding that belief is good for us. The result is bad science, bad medicine--and even bad religion when faith is trivialized by being treated like just another item in the health-care system's bag of tricks...
...accordingly, Gavelis conducts a profound autopsy of Lithuanian identity garroted by Soviet rule. This ambitious endeavor is admirably achieved. Gavelis’ writing is a paragon of surrealist creativity and an intensely interesting read, filled with effortlessly intelligent prose and a wryly macabre voice. What’s at stake in “Vilnius Poker” is the namesake city, Lithuania’s capital, which is first introduced through the eyes of the most fractured player at the table, Vytautas Vargalas. Vargalas, a labor camp survivor turned librarian, serves as a paradigm for post-Soviet interstice...
...employees. In a statement released on Feb. 2, Satyam claimed to have retained 95% of its top 20 clients and to have won 15 new contracts in January. At least four groups including Indian construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro have shown interest in acquiring a controlling stake...
...facilitate a sale, SEBI is planning to relax the rules governing corporate buyouts. Currently, any group wanting to acquire a minimum 15% stake in a company must make an open offer to all shareholders based on a 26-week average share price. SEBI wants to waive this requirement to enable more realistic pricing of Satyam's shares, which plunged by more than 70% after the scandal broke and now trade at about $1.27 a share. Satyam's government-appointed board are discussing buyout options this week, but a sale cannot be completed until its accounts are restated, a process that...