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But it's not just general sportswear manufacturers that are taking advantage of the high-tech trend. Even Speedo, a specialty maker of competitive swimwear, sees an opportunity to introduce its brand to a wider audience. Because it invests tens of millions of dollars annually on research into innovative fabrics...
With all the other problems piling up - soaring energy costs, the war in Iraq, tens of millions of Americans with no health-care insurance, skyrocketing federal debt - Republicans were bound to get a kick in the rear when the only bill they considered this week on the House floor was...
That helps explain why, at a rough guess, some doctors estimate that 45% of all sedation today is handled by people other than anesthesiologists. "There are tens of thousands, maybe millions, of sedation procedures done satisfactorily by other physicians," Guidry says. Still, a 2003 study published by Dr. Hector Vila...
Those sentiments are increasingly heard throughout Asia, where mounting prosperity and changing attitudes toward charity are altering the ways the wealthy give back to society. Charitable donations in the region have traditionally tended to be a private affair, with the rich quietly giving directly to needy individuals within a family...
Naguib Mahfouz, who died last week at 94, transcended the status of celebrated writer and became Egypt's spiritual father. The characters from his books were the vocabulary of everyday life. It is common to hear an Egyptian woman, quarrelling with her husband, shout in his face, "You think you...