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...late 1990s, Walker, 60, a partner based in New York City with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb, helped the South Korean government stave off default by successfully renegotiating its bank loans. Now he is helping the South Korean microchip maker Hynix sustain its financial health. Walker was recently hired to advise the company in its discussions--including talk of a possible merger--with U.S.-based chipmaking rival Micron Technology...
...prevention draws on breakthroughs in our understanding of how the body works at all levels, from gross anatomy to molecular biology. Equally important, researchers are beginning to understand how the body's systems--immune, nervous, endocrine--affect one another. Scientists have uncovered secrets about how exercise and nutrition can stave off everything from heart disease to aging. They're working on vaccines for AIDS, malaria, TB and even cancer. They're learning--most recently in the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks--how the judicious use of antibiotics can prevent disaster (and how abusing those medicines can cause...
...what proved to be the final game of the match, Brown built up another lead and was able to stave off another Harvard rally...
...After an uneventful 10th, Arizona loaded the bases in the 11th, only to have Yankee second baseman Alfonso Soriano rob Reggie Sanders with a diving stab to stave off a run. It was now past midnight in the city that never sleeps. If they could have, the D-Backs would have hailed a cab. In the bottom of the 12th, designated hitter Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double, his first hit of the Series. Home run hero Brosius pushed him to second with a sacrifice. Then Soriano smacked a single to right. Knoblauch raced for home. Sanders throw beat...
Thank you, Charles Krauthammer, for your commentary "In Defense of 'Assassination,'" supporting Israel's targeted response to Palestinian bombers [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 27]. Israel is responding as the U.S. would to stave off the wave of indiscriminate acts by Palestinian suicide bombers, who are not martyrs but murderers. The only reason Israel is negotiating is that it wants peace. RON GALLOP New York City...