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...hospitals, Levy said. Levy added at the meeting that there has been a cultural shift in treatment as well, as workers insecure in their employment postpone taking time off for elective surgery out of the fear their job might not be there when they return. After his announcement Wednesday, Levy held three town meetings Friday to solicit input from staff about creative solutions to decrease expenses. He said that the town meetings, and full disclosure of Beth Israel’s financial status, are part of his overall goal for transparency. “You have a right to know...
...Whether this truce will last, however, is anyone's guess. In a sign that it could be over already, the headquarters of the state-owned energy company Naftogaz, which answers to Tymoshenko, were raided on Wednesday by armed agents from the state security service, the SBU, which is controlled by Yushchenko. The SBU says it is investigating Naftogaz for "misappropriating" gas that belongs to private energy company RosUkrEnergy; Tymoshenko says the SBU is being used by a "corrupt group" in a fight for gas she says belongs to Ukraine. "There's no such thing as a truce between cats...
...research institutes, and the student body to review its pharma policy, though the university is hedging on whether it actually plans to change the way it operates. "We cannot speculate on the outcomes of the review process" is all a spokesman is willing to say. And as of Wednesday, Pfizer had apologized to Grassley for what it called the "unfortunate incident" that has "overshadowed the importance of collaboration between industry and leading academic medical institutions." That may be nothing more than a well-spun half-apology - but it doesn't mean there's not some truth...
...United States currently faces an approximately 20 percent probability of entering into an economic depression, according to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by Harvard Economics professor Robert J. Barro. Drawing upon the financial statistics of 251 previous stock-market crashes and 97 depressions, Barro wrote that “the odds are roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package...
...groups were told to suspend operations by Sunday, three days before the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Just hours after the arrest warrant was announced Wednesday, Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission told the groups that their registration was being revoked. (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...