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...partnering, Ghosn found the idea of pooling forces with GM appealing. And he figured GM could help his carmakers save billions of dollars on everything from power trains to transmissions. But the talks fizzled when Ghosn and GM chairman Rick Wagoner couldn't agree on terms--to the relief of Nissan and Renault shareholders, who didn't want Ghosn moonlighting in Detroit. The upshot: Ghosn hasn't given up on a partnership, but for the time being he says he just wants to run his brands. "We're concentrating on putting Nissan back into a position of strong growth...
...active ingredients is pseudoephedrine, widely used in backyard labs to make methamphetamine. Several states had already ordered pseudoephedrine off pharmacy shelves, but in October the Federal Government expanded those rules and put them into effect across the country. Now allergy suffers looking for relief have to ask a pharmacist or salesclerk for their Sudafed, show photo ID and sign a logbook. Unfortunately, the most common alternative, phenylephrine, isn't as effective...
...from their HIV-positive mothers who pass along the virus during birth. With their first breath, these children are born fighting for their lives. And while ever more life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are moving into places like Africa, thanks to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund, there just aren't enough doctors in these regions familiar with treating kids to use these drugs properly...
...longer applies. That curious change in language, which the Washington Post denounced as "linguistic airbrushing," inspired some poverty activists to charge officials with trying to cover up the problem. "We're very concerned about 'hunger' disappearing," said Ross Fraser of America's Second Harvest, the country's largest hunger-relief charity. "How do you talk about hunger if the government isn't providing you with data about hunger?" It was easy to suspect a conspiracy, that someone in the government who didn't like the fact that every year for the last five the hunger statistics had gotten worse...
...spite of the Islamists' disreputable allies, many Somalis cannot remember a time when they felt safer. For Americans, the single, searing image of Somalia was formed in October 1993, after two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters--part of a U.S. mission to provide humanitarian relief and restore order--were felled by militias loyal to warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Eighteen U.S. special forces were killed, and the world community's involvement in Somalia effectively ended. What followed was a decade and a half of intermittent war that reduced Mogadishu to rubble. Along the "green line," the architectural gem of the former Italian...