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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2013
Wyeth Pharma has pleaded guilty to a criminal misbranding violation and agreed to pay a criminal fine and forfeiture of $491 million The US Justice Department has said that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $490.9 million for misbranding a drug that prevents the...

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Prof Anil Agashe 31 July 2013
Parents want to give their children the best of everything especially education. Children, on the other hand, want everything without pausing to think what sacrifices their parents have to make to give them all that they desire! In an induction program for fresh batch of MBA students I...

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AC THOMPSON (ProPublica)  and   JONATHAN JONES (special to ProPublica) 31 July 2013
When the ambulance crew arrived, about 8:20pm, Joan Boice was in the TV lounge, face-down on the carpet. Her head had struck the floor with some velocity; bruises were forming on her forehead and both cheeks. It appeared she'd lost her balance and fallen out of a chair   Joan Boice...

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AC THOMPSON (ProPublica)  and   JONATHAN JONES (special to ProPublica) 31 July 2013
When the ambulance crew arrived, about 8:20pm, Joan Boice was in the TV lounge, face-down on the carpet. Her head had struck the floor with some velocity; bruises were forming on her forehead and both cheeks. It appeared she'd lost her balance and fallen out of a chair   Joan Boice...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 July 2013
Just two days back, the probe panel has given a clean chit to Srinivasan, Gurunath Meiyappan, as well as Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals in the spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL cricket tournament The Bombay High Court on Tuesday held the two-member probe panel set up by it to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 July 2013
The hacktivist group was protesting the plans to allow New Zealand's intelligence agency to spy on local residents Anonymous, the hacker-activist (hacktivist) group on Tuesday briefly crashed website of New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. The hacktivist group was protesting the plans to...

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AC THOMPSON (ProPublica)  and   JONATHAN JONES (special to ProPublica) 30 July 2013
Joan Boice needed help. Lots of it. Her physician had tallied the damage: Alzheimer's disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis. For Joan, an 81-year-old former schoolteacher, simply getting from her couch to the bathroom required the aid of a walker or wheelchair   Joan Boice surfered...

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AC THOMPSON (ProPublica)  and   JONATHAN JONES (special to ProPublica) 30 July 2013
Joan Boice needed help. Lots of it. Her physician had tallied the damage: Alzheimer's disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis. For Joan, an 81-year-old former schoolteacher, simply getting from her couch to the bathroom required the aid of a walker or wheelchair   Joan Boice surfered...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 29 July 2013
President Obama has repeatedly said the US is targeting Al Qaeda and "associated forces." But the US government is reluctant to reveal these 'forces' In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban,...

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Has Internet liberated or chained us?   The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we communicate, store information and search. Many people check their Twitter and Facebook pages even before they brush their teeth in the morning. Internet enables families to keep in touch over...

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Story of Mumbai’s dance bars, more gripping than a work of fiction   “My story is the best you will ever hear. The best, understand? Now come close.” No one has been able to walk away from Leela. The readers too, have no other option. The bar dancers of Mumbai have always been an...

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Kara Brandeisky (ProPublica) 26 July 2013
A measure to end one NSA program was just defeated in the House by a surprisingly narrow margin. Here are other proposals on the table Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the narrow 205-217 vote showed that there is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 July 2013
Moneylife Foundation conducted an exclusive workshop for senior citizens on planning finances after retirement and being safe with both money and decisions Financial planners look around for young and high earning professionals as clients. Fund management and wealth management companies...

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The falling rupee has escalated maintenance costs of some brands Today, more than ever before, we need to look very carefully at our vehicle’s local components. This will give us ‘insurance’ at the time of purchase as well as when it goes for service and repairs. The drop in value of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 July 2013
Research studies have shown that wine experts are no better than an amateur when it comes to judging wine taste and quality. Should we trust the experts? Pricing can have a remarkable effect on consumers. We tend to associate expensive with better. This is backed up in a very interesting...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 25 July 2013
Western support for the opposition in Syria's bloody civil war raises fears of a blowback from the European extremists who've flocked to new land of jihad MADRID — Rachid Wahbi came to Syria from a Spanish slum, rushing toward death. And he didn’t plan to die alone.   Facing a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 July 2013
Due to landslide, the Rishikesh-Badrinath and Rishikesh-Kedarnath highways have been blocked at several places   Fresh incidents of cloudburst, landslides and house collapses were reported in Uttarakahnd after moderate to heavy rains lashed the state on Tuesday and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 July 2013
Under Section 304(2) of the IPC for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the hit-and-run case, Salman may face a jail term of up to 10 years   A Sessions Court in Mumbai on Wednesday framed charges against actor Salman Khan for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the...

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A full bench comprising central information commissioners will conduct a hearing on the issue of BCCI and 29 other cricket associations coming under the RTI, based on a complaint filed by an RTI activist The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) continues to hold on to a court...

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Every human body is built to last as long as it can, thanks to its immune system. The immune system needs boosting, on a regular basis, to keep the person disease-free. Modern medicine is not doing that. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite...

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