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| Well Nightmares After the I.C.U. | | | Patients who have prolonged stays, getting intubated and sedated, may experience severe hallucinations, putting them at risk of PTSD for years to come, studies show. |
| GSK replaces China chief amid corruption scandal | | | LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has appointed one of its top European executives as the new head of operations in China, amid a corruption scandal there that has rocked Britain's biggest drug maker. |
| A Move for the Frugal Traveler | | | Starting this week, the Frugal Traveler column is changing its format 8212; though you8217;ll barely notice the difference. |
| Nigeria's "peace of a graveyard' | | | More than 2,800 people have been killed in Nigeria since the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria started in 2009, according to Human Rights Watch. The Islamic militant group, which wants to enforce a strict version of Islamic law in northern Nigeria, has successfully hit soft and hard targets in a manner that questions the capacity of the Nigerian state to protect its citizenry. Hard targets have included the police and United Nations headquarters in Abuja. |
| China's city of sinkholes | | | Four months after he built a new, two-story brick house in his village in northern China's Shandong Province, Xiao Guoqiang was alarmed to find a huge crack on the living room wall. |
| Facebook wows Wall Street with mobile ads growth | | | (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's stellar results allayed fears that the company may face difficulty in making money from mobile ads and prompted several Wall Street brokerages to raise their target price on the stock. |
| U.S. judge signs off on IBM bribery case settlement | | | WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday approved a 2011 settlement between International Business Machines Corp and U.S. regulators over charges of foreign bribery related to improper gifts to government officials in China and South Korea. |
| Scientists smell success with durian wine | | | July 21 - Scientists in Singapore are turning their hands to wine-making, using the pungent-smelling durian as a replacement for grapes. They're still a long way from commercializing durian wine, but the researchers are confident that the so-called "King of Fruits" has potential for producing a wine that people will want to drink. Tara Cleary reports. |
| US farm bill on hold while House tries again on food stamp cuts | | | WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House will try to cut billions of dollars from the food stamp program before negotiating an overall farm bill with the Senate, the House majority leader said on Thursday two months before the current farm law expires. |
| Behind Sesame Street's Muppets | | | Since the 1960s, Sesame Street's puppets have been running, singing and dancing their way across our TV screens as if possessed of a life of their own. |
| Choir singing good for the heart | | | July 25 - A Swedish study shows that when people sing together, their pulse rates synchronise, suggesting health benefits for the heart. |
| Morsy's son speaks out | | | Osama Morsy, son of former Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsy calls his father's ouster a "coup on democracy" and vows not to let it go. |
| SPECIAL REPORT How the Muslim Brotherhood lost Egypt | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - When Egyptians poured onto the streets in their millions to demand the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, few thought they would return two years later demonstrating for the overthrow of the man they elected to replace him. |
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