tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13608354674584662592011-05-10T14:27:28.158-07:00terminal-joeNews Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-91446921924836602822011-05-09T14:27:00.000-07:002011-05-10T14:27:28.218-07:00Alkermes to acquire Elan unit in $960 million dealU.S. drugmaker Alkermes Inc. is acquiring the drug-delivery division of Elan Corp. and will move its headquarters from Massachusetts to Ireland, in a deal worth $960 million.
The two companies said Monday that the deal, in the works for at least half a year, would not mean any job losses on either side of the Atlantic.
For Dublin-based Elan, the sell-off of its drug technologies division caps News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-46936111337517682242011-05-07T06:59:00.000-07:002011-05-08T06:59:16.825-07:00Huntsman addresses his Obama role in SC speechCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Republican Jon Huntsman, weighing a White House bid, used his first formal event after stepping down as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China to confront the line on his resume that conservatives were most likely to declare a deal-breaker.
In a high-profile speech to the University of South Carolina, the former Utah governor said patriotism should trump partisanship News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-4513604944354516962011-05-06T10:01:00.000-07:002011-05-07T10:02:02.802-07:00Missing Fla. woman's boyfriend arrested in NYROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A former New York prison guard whose police-recruit girlfriend disappeared in Florida in March has been charged with faking an injury so he could retire on disability, state police said Friday.
Authorities arrested David Perry, 47, late Thursday night for an unspecified traffic violation in Allegany County, about 80 miles west of his home in Elmira.
Charged with insurance News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-15561875271661504912011-05-05T09:40:00.000-07:002011-05-06T09:40:57.659-07:00India tries sports, job training to pacify KashmirSRINAGAR, India (AP) -- After facing three summers of violent separatist protests in Kashmir, the Indian government is trying to prevent another outburst of rage with a new approach: charm.
It's starting cricket and soccer clubs, holding out the hope of new jobs, and teaching troops to speak the local language as it changes tactics in this Muslim-majority region where residents have long demandedNews Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-76374736946192830902011-05-05T01:26:00.000-07:002011-05-06T01:26:35.054-07:00Productivity growth slowed in January-March periodWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. companies squeezed more work out of their staffs in the first three months of the year, but the gain in productivity was much slower than the previous three months.
Productivity rose at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the January-March period compared to a 2.9 percent increase in the previous quarter, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Labor costs rose at a 1 percentNews Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-76318845850871648072011-05-04T10:27:00.000-07:002011-05-05T10:27:34.313-07:00LaHood outlines new bus safety measuresWASHINGTON (AP) -- It would be harder for tour bus companies to win permission to operate and easier for the government to put rogue operators out of business under a series of bus safety steps announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Other proposals announced by LaHood would make it easier for the government to take away bus drivers' commercial licenses if they violate drug andNews Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-25644475009018110602011-05-04T06:11:00.000-07:002011-05-05T06:11:19.865-07:00Obama will not release photo of bin LadenWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the White House will not release a photo of Osama bin Laden's body.
Obama made the remarks during an interview Wednesday with CBS' "60 Minutes."
The White House had been weighing the release of a photo, in part to offer proof that bin Laden was killed during a raid on his compound early Monday. However, officials had cautioned that the photo was News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-36674621055388748652011-05-03T23:41:00.000-07:002011-05-04T23:41:12.436-07:00For computer chip builders, only one way to go: UpSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today's chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional transistor design it revealed Wednesday.
Analysts call it one of the most significant developments in News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-3668279470831382172011-05-02T20:54:00.000-07:002011-05-04T20:55:01.497-07:00Coast Guard halts search for cruise ship passengerSAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Coast Guard suspended a search for a cruise ship passenger Wednesday after closed-circuit video showed the woman jumping overboard.
The footage taken aboard the Celebrity Millennium showed the 63-year-old woman climbing over a railing Monday night and letting go, Celebrity Cruises said.
The ship staff learned she was missing when she failed to disembark in San Diego on News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-40968303271716022612011-04-24T21:59:00.000-07:002011-04-25T21:00:34.956-07:00Mexico agency confirms $1B fine for Slim's companyMEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's antitrust agency confirmed Sunday that it levied a $1 billion (12 billion peso) fine against the Mexican cellphone subsidiary of tycoon Carlos Slim and ordered it to stop unfair practices.
The Federal Competition Commission said it found that Slim's Telcel business engages in "relative monopolistic practices" by overcharging competitors to connect calls to Telcel News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-90854977065261038012011-04-23T22:03:00.000-07:002011-04-24T21:03:51.448-07:00No deaths in St. Louis tornado called a miracleBRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) -- The St. Louis area's most powerful tornado in 44 years rips into an airport and through a densely populated suburban area, destroying up to 100 homes, shattering hundreds of panes of glass at the main terminal and blowing a shuttle bus on top of a roof. Yet no one is killed, or even seriously hurt, and the airport reopens less than 24 hours later. How?
Early warnings, good News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-8338050077673509422011-04-23T18:13:00.000-07:002011-04-24T17:14:27.667-07:00Pfizer says patient died in oral RA drug studyNEW YORK (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. confirmed that one patient who was taking its drug candidate tofacitinib, a pill designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, died during a recent clinical trial and said the death was connected to the drug.
The world's largest drugmaker said the patient died of respiratory failure. Three other patients who were treated with tofacitinib during the study died as well, but News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-55690224581102629672011-04-22T18:32:00.000-07:002011-04-23T17:32:59.546-07:00Shiite mosques demolished in Bahrain crackdownMANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahrain's main opposition party says authorities have demolished 16 mosques as part of crackdown on Shiite dissent in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom over the past month.
Al Wefaq says 30 Shiite places of worship - including 16 mosques - have been destroyed since martial law was declared last month.
A statement Saturday said the government has no legal justification for News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-25221910204603772522011-04-17T11:16:00.000-07:002011-04-18T10:17:06.009-07:00How Health Insurance Can Help YouHealth insurance plans can look like an added expenses that you may not actually need. Nevertheless, health insurance may be helpful for a number of argues. You can search through health insurance plans to find the greatest one for you, whether it is something that only covers the a few and far-between doctor's visits you may need throughout the year, or disability coverage that takes into News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-25871173925291070282011-04-15T23:25:00.000-07:002011-04-16T22:25:56.037-07:00House panel: Clemens can't see its files for trialWASHINGTON (AP) -- A congressional panel that investigated drugs in baseball says All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens shouldn't get access to its internal files to use at his upcoming federal trial.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said in court papers filed late Friday night that there is no "carve-out" in its secrecy laws for criminal defendants like Clemens to look into its News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-51255579768429812232011-04-08T08:42:00.000-07:002011-04-09T07:42:46.843-07:00A Consumer's Head to Health Care ModernizeThe six-month day of remembrance] of the act of the health care modernize, numerous of the law's preparations will be good. Nearly consumers, nevertheless, will not insure whatever modifies till subsequently January 1, while their recently health insurance plan class begins.
Meanwhile, employees will be coming fix for fall's "open enrollment" period, when they pick their health coverage for the News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360835467458466259.post-35538441887184202362011-03-16T00:35:00.000-07:002011-03-16T23:35:37.788-07:00Reporter: Ex-CIA agent viewed bombings as 'heroic'EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A New York Times reporter who interviewed an elderly ex-CIA agent about masterminding deadly bombings that rocked luxury hotels and other top tourist sites in Cuba in 1997 testified Wednesday that he sought out the newspaper to better explain the heroism of those attacks.
Ann Louise Bardach traveled to Aruba and spent 13 hours talking to anti-communist militant Luis Posada News Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161535362314734609noreply@blogger.com