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...wine give you a headache? Take heart ?- a new study of alcohol?s affect on the ol? ticker says that when it comes to reaping the benefits of moderate drinking, any booze will do. The study, from researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation, is the largest to date: 21,537 men over a 12-year period. It follows much debate about the so-called French Paradox, the contention that the consumption of red wine - thought to contain anti-fat ingredients other than those found in alcohol - was responsible for relatively...
There may have been no ticker tape parade for General Wesley Clark, but that doesn?t mean he?s getting the military version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...outcome. NATO was indeed forced to step up the air war, and many observers believe that it was only the prospect of a ground war that actually prompted Yuogslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw from Kosovo. "Clark may be suffering from perceptions created by the absence of a ticker tape parade," says Thompson. "But that?s because Clark won a hybrid war that wasn?t even declared...
WALL STREET CLEANING The National Association of Securities Dealers is getting rid of half its 6,500 over-the-counter securities. They'll go out the door unless they start reporting financial information regularly. These securities, too small to be listed on NASDAQ, are being reviewed alphabetically by ticker symbol. Noncompliant companies, listed on www.otcbb.com have 30 days to change their status or wind up on the National Quotation Bureau's pink sheets, available online by August...
...While it?s too early for NATO to plan a ticker-tape parade, Milosevic, personally, has no cause to break out the Mo?t. His nationalist allies have deserted him over his surrender of Kosovo; his more liberal opponents will attack him for pointlessly subjecting the country to a 78-day bombing nightmare; he?s now wanted in the Hague to face war crimes charges; and the U.S. and Britain are warning his countrymen they?ll get no help rebuilding their shattered country while he?s still in power. (The latter condition may well be quietly dropped as Europe balks...