In Media Res
Date: 29 November 2002
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column on whether economic interests of media undermine objective news coverage; cites failure of most journalists in 'liberal media' to endorse Al Gore's clearly true stand that some major media voices are part of Republican Party; holds handful of organizations that supply most people with their news have major commercial interests that tempt them to slant their coverage and to be deferential to ruling party (M)
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China's Deadly Cover-Up
Date: 29 November 2002
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column scores Chinese government's cover-up of its AIDS crisis; holds West must pressure China to act quickly to address growing AIDS challenge; notes government blocks news coverage and aid to one million people infected in Henan Province as result of government-backed blood-selling schemes (M)
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Jewish Sports Hall Will Induct Five
Date: 29 November 2002
By Frank Litsky
Frank Litsky
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame elects former North Carolina University basketball player Lennie Rosenbluth, tennis player Tom Okker, fencer Sergei Sharikov, sportswriter Dick Schaap and statistician Al Munro Elias (S)
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TECUMSEH PRODUCTS WILL BUY MOTOR UNIT OF INVENSYS
Date: 28 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tecumseh Products, maker of small engines fot
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DROP IN PRICES PULLS DOWN HORMEL'S QUARTERLY PROFIT
Date: 28 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hormel Foods Corp's profit fell 1.2 percent in fiscal fourth quarter ended Oct 26; net income fell to $68 million from $68.8 million year earlier; sales fell 1.5 percent, to $1.04 billion; wholesale pork prices fell 26 percent from year earlier (S)
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GUIDANT AND COOK GROUP LOSE APPEAL ON ARTERY STENT
Date: 28 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Guidant will not be able to begin selling new device to prop open cleared arteries because research partner Cook Group failed to keep court order from taking effect; ruling is victory for Boston Scientific, which won October decision blocking Guidant and Cook from selling devices called drug-coated stents; US Appeals Court denies Cook's request to use data from clinical trial to win approval in US while it appealed district court judge's decision (S)
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WILLIAMS COS. PLANS TO TRIM JOBS AT GAS PIPELINES
Date: 28 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Williams Companies, in effort to stay solvent amid collapse of its trading business, plans to cut jobs at three of its largest natural gas pipelines (S)/
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TUBACEX WILL CLOSE NEW YORK PLANT AND CUT 90 WORKERS
Date: 28 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tubacex Will Close New York Plant And Cut 90 Workersÿ
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W.T.O. Backs U.S. Law
Date: 29 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The World Trade Organization has upheld provisions of a United States trade law against a European Union challenge that the law was inconsistent with world trade rules, the United States said. The European Union had complained that United States provisions to counteract subsidized imports violated trade rules.
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