A ProPublica investigation published Tuesday raises concerns about a biotech laboratory being built in Malaysia that will handle deadly pathogens such as anthrax, plague, SARS and the Ebola virus. The stated mission of lab, developed by the Malaysian government with the Maryland-based firm Emergent BioSolutions, is to produce vaccines against fatal and contagious agents that [...]
Forget the old, overblown Cleveland jokes — the mistake by the lake, the mayor whose hair caught on fire, the mayor’s wife who passed up an invitation to the White House because it fell on her bowling night. The Cleveland Orchestra is the real deal. It puts its host city on the cultural map in [...]
Two years ago an Episcopal church court defrocked the Bishop of Pennsylvania, Charles Bennison, after finding that in the 1970s he failed to act on information that his brother, while youth minister at his parish, sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the congregation. But on Aug. 4, a church appeals board overturned that verdict and [...]
Hedge funds focusing on Asian investments experienced heavy losses in the second quarter, but that did not seem to deter investors from giving them more money. So why the paradox? It appears that changes in China’s monetary policy during the quarter attracted some investors hoping to benefit from a possible strengthening in that country’s currency [...]
Hedge funds focusing on Asian investments experienced heavy losses in the second quarter, but that did not seem to deter investors from giving them more money. So why the paradox? It appears that changes in China’s monetary policy during the quarter attracted some investors hoping to benefit from a possible strengthening in that country’s currency [...]
David A. Viniar, the chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs, said Tuesday that the firm had not experienced a major loss of business as a result of the securities fraud case that it settled with Securities and Exchange Commission, saying that Goldman’s clients were “pretty supportive.” “We acknowledge that we made a mistake; we regret [...]
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