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...Long debated as a concept, the polypill is ready for trial in Australia and New Zealand. A half-pink, half-white tablet manufactured by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in India, it contains small doses of several well-known medications: aspirin (to prevent blood clots), a statin (to lower cholesterol), and two blood-pressure-lowering agents. When two British researchers pushed the case for the polypill in a 2003 report in the British Medical Journal, they argued that if taken daily by people with vascular disease and those aged over 55, it would cut the incidence of heart attack and stroke...
...automatic bid as the highest—and only—nationally ranked player in the conference. Ko finished the spring season with a 19-4 record, primarily playing at the top singles spot for the Crimson. Ko took two weeks off in May to compete in New Zealand in the international Fed Cup, where she finished 3-2 playing in the top singles spot for Singapore. Among the 16 seeded players in the singles field, Ko has played only No. 8 Megan Moulton-Levy of William and Mary, to whom she lost...
...almost any other member. (China, which joined the WTO in 2001, had five years to open its banking market.) Already, eight foreign banks have applied to establish wholly owned Vietnam branches. Among them are UK-based HSBC, one of the world's largest banks, and ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group); both are planning to open 10 new branches each within three years so they can expand services such as credit cards, home mortgages and personal loans. "Definitely, the growth will be high," says Thuy Dam, ANZ's general manager for Vietnam...
...everyone is comfortable with this freewheeling baby feeding. Milk banks, which sell bottled breast milk, already make some people squirm; the idea of physically breast-feeding a child not your own evokes even deeper taboos. Rhonda Shaw, a sociologist who studies shared nursing in New Zealand, where the trend is also up, says many confuse "adult meanings of eroticism with breast feeding ... Sometimes people associate a woman breast-feeding another woman's baby with pedophilia." Even the pro-nursing group La Leche League has concerns about milk sharing because, in addition to helpful immunities and antibodies, viruses can be passed...
...escalate to well past $100,000. Almost as famous as the bag is the waiting list the company tries not to let exceed five years. Each bag requires a single, flawless skin, rendering production wholly susceptible to the throes of Mother Nature. If there's a drought in New Zealand, as there was a few years ago, the availability of ostrich decreases drastically. It typically takes six months to two years to find an exotic skin for a bag. After that, the entirely by-hand construction of a Birkin requires 72 hours to two weeks to complete, limiting weekly output...