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...Germans Regain Bayer Aspirin...
...German chemical firm Bayer paid $1 billion to regain the American rights to its name by buying the North American over-the-counter medicine business of Sterling Winthrop. A Bayer chemist, Felix Hoffman, developed the company's production process for its most famous product, aspirin, in 1893. Bayer lost its American patents and copyrights in 1918, when the U.S. government seized the firm's assets following World...
UConn did not waste much time to regain the lead...
What the owners ultimately failed to realize is that this year, more so than others, was a perfect opportunity to regain some of the territory that baseball has lost in both the American psyche and wallet in the past decade. The owners have taken away the opportunity for the fans to participate in a record-setting year through their Nielsen boxes and their local sports merchandise shop. The cap worn by the man who might have broken Maris' record would have been worn later by legions of the young...
America's strength in information technology has helped it regain the top spot as a technological innovator, according to the Council on Competitiveness. It's a big jump from just three years back, when the nation was "weak or losing badly" in one-third of 94 critical technologies driving the economy, according to the Council on Competitiveness.TWENTY DEAD EVERY MINUTE? By 2020 the number of smoking-related deaths will jump 200%, to 10 million, according to an analysis of the smoking trends in over 45 countries. The findings, which will be released next week in a book sponsored by Britain...