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...commodities, financial and pharmaceutical sectors. Many are subsidiaries of firms headquartered elsewhere, including such big U.S. names as Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kellogg and PerkinElmer. These firms, and others from around the world, have no trouble getting executives to transfer to Zug, or to visit. The town offers both "tax advantages and a great quality of life," says Andreas Emmenegger, CFO of Fantastic, a software company with offices in Framingham, Mass., New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta and Dallas...
...apply this reform, we may as well stop because we won't achieve any others," Henri Guaino, a special advisor to Sarkozy, told the daily Libération. During a visit to Germany on Monday, Sarkozy voiced even steelier determination when declaring, "We were elected to transform France, and will apply these reforms because they must be applied." Aware of union promises to employ bare-knuckled defense of the "special regime" pensions, French Prime Minister François Fillon advised his parliamentary backers to "fasten your seat belts" ahead of tomorrow's turbulence...
...love with the idea of patients treating themselves either. Could these gadgets make dermatologists obsolete? Not likely. If anything, those in the business argue, these self-treatments might entice consumers who want to do something but can't afford to. Eventually they'll be hooked, goes the argument, and visit physicians for more. Says Dr. Bruce Katz, director of the Juva Skin and Laser Center in New York City: "It's just like hair color. Sure, you can do it yourself, but you won't get the same result you'll get in a hair salon." Then again, home hair...
...make the headlines, virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report on the ills of the Italian game also included a visit in southern Rome to Lazio fan headquarters, adorned with Fascist-era Celtic crosses and photographs of Benito Mussolini. When I arrived with an AP photographer, a leader of the "Irrudicibile" rooting section refused to talk to me, made the photographer turn over his film, and accused my bearded colleague...
...During a visit to Uganda's capital, Kampala, just before the tour began, a delegation of LRA representatives released a conciliatory dove. Both the visit and gesture were unprecedented. But, perhaps fittingly, the symbol of peace plummeted dead to the ground shortly after the bird took flight. The burden of some sins may just be too heavy, no matter how much they have been forgiven...