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...Paris headquarters of cementmaker Lafarge Group on Dec. 26, the devastation ran deep. The firm had a plant in Lho Nga, Indonesia, 25 km west of Banda Aceh, perilously close to the earthquake's epicenter off Sumatra. A killer wave destroyed the plant's 35 buildings as well as a seaside complex that housed 100 local employees and their families. As of last week, Lafarge had accounted for only 294 of its 625 workers based at the plant. The company responded quickly. A day after the disaster, a Lafarge team based in Indonesia flew search, rescue and medical personnel...
...Stealth Killer Your report on high blood pressure is a timely and critical message for every person [Dec. 13]. In your article, you remarked on the role that nitric oxide plays in relaxing blood vessels. When I shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998 for my research on the role of nitric oxide in cardiovascular health, I knew we had only begun to understand the importance of this unique molecule. Nitric oxide is critically important in reducing blood pressure and promoting total cardiovascular health. I am convinced by my ongoing research that reduced levels of nitric oxide production...
...Lanka might help bring the warring factions closer together. History certainly offers examples in which the human solidarity across lines of political conflict prompted by a natural disaster have eased the climate between hostile nations - most recently in the help sent by Greece to Turkey in the wake of killer earthquakes. But there are also historical examples, such as the social upheavals that followed massive earthquakes in Nicaragua in 1973, in which natural disasters have sharpened conflict, particularly when aggrieved parties believe there is a bias in the distribution of relief aid. Already there are signs of such a dynamic...
...that he believes more star-director combos should attempt. "I think it's really irresponsible to make really crappy movies for the up-front money," he says. "If you need a job or are just coming up, by all means take the job. I was in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. But if you have the ability to green-light a script, I think it's wrong...
...Frontier is providing the chip to Samsung, which is building it into a mobile device for the Korean market. Beginning in the first quarter of next year, several broadcasters, including the Korean Broadcasting System, will start airing programs tailored to it. "Within the next five years, the major new killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder...