Israeli Cable Outlets Get Permission to Remove CNN
Date: 02 August 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Israel's cable television commission grants country's cable providers permission to remove CNN International from their services; there have been loud complaints about CNN's coverage of conflict between Israel and Palestinians (S)
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FAMILY FARE
Date: 02 August 2002
By Laurel Graeber
Laurel Graeber
Laurel Graeber Family Fare column on LITE Company production of The King Stag in Prospect Park, opera Carmen in the City at Lincoln Center and It's News to Me! exhibition at Queens Borough Public Library; photo (M)
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F.B.I. Inquiry on 9/11 Leak Upsets Lawmakers on Committees
Date: 02 August 2002
By Christopher Marquis
Christopher Marquis
FBI has interviewed dozens of members of House and Senate intelligence committees and aides and asked them to take lie detector tests in effort to discover who leaked classified information to reporters in wake of Sept 11 terrorist attacks; number of lawmakers have refused to comply, uneasy about constitutional precedent; committee chairmen Sen Bob Graham and Repr Porter J Goss asked FBI to look into reports on Arabic conversations intercepted by National Security Agency day before attacks (M)
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ONLINE DIARY
Date: 01 August 2002
By Pamela Licalzi O'Connell
Pamela O'Connell
Online Diary column; Tom Rogers's Web site, www.intuitor.com/moviephysics, tracks scientific gaffes in movies, explaining how things shown on big screen could not possibly work in real life; Web site discussion group tries to discern truth behind blind gossip items that appear in newspapers; online discussion group, Harry Potter for Grownups, offers proofreading service intended for those with impaired sight or other disabilities that might make meticulous posting difficult; online sites devoted to librarians in various media noted; miscellaneous interesting and silly Web sites noted; drawing (M)
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MBNA ACQUIRES CARD BUSINESS OF ALLIANCE & LEICESTER
Date: 02 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MBNA Corp acquires credit card business of Alliance & Leicester, British bank, for 225 million pounds ($349 million)
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VERSICOR TO BUY BIOSEARCH FOR $261 MILLION IN STOCK
Date: 01 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Versicor, California-based biotechnology company, agrees to buy Italian partner, Biosearch Italia, for $261 million in newly issued stock to expand its line of antibiotic drugs (S)
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TRANSKARYOTIC WINS AN APPEAL ON DRUG PATENT RULING
Date: 01 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Transkaryotic Therapies wins British appeals court reversal of ruling that its anemia drug, Dynepo, infringes on patent for Amgen's $2 billion Epogen treatment (S)
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BEVERLY ENTERPRISES TO PAY $2.6 MILLION SETTLEMENT
Date: 02 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Beverly Enterprises, nursing home company, agrees to pay $2.6 million to settle felony charges of abusing elderly residents in California (S)
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WILLIAMS SAYS IT HAS RAISED $3.4 BILLION
Date: 02 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Williams Companies says that it raised $3.4 billion from asset sales and new loans to help stave off bankruptcy (S)
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CHUBB GETS INDIAN APPROVAL FOR INSURANCE VENTURE
Date: 01 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chubb Corp, leading business insurer, wins approval from Indian government to buy 26 percent of nonlife insurance venture with Housing Development Finance Corp, India's largest mortgage lender; venture will focus on auto, accident and household insurance policies (S)
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