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59 min ago | Medical News

Quest Diagnostics reports sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use

New data released today by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, reveal that drug testing of hair specimens from employees and job applicants in the general U.S. workforce has tracked sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use from 2005 to the first half of 2009 ...

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Related Topix: Drugs, Drug Testing, Biotech, Quest Diagnostics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Free Republic

Covington Secures Retrial for Former Death Row Inmate

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has granted a retrial for Covington & Burling LLP client Cory Maye, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 shooting of a police officer that occurred during a narcotics task force search of Mr.

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Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Death Penalty

Science Blog

Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, Harvard researchers say

The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, Harvard researchers say, although it may have modestly improved the quality of care for heart attacks.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Medicaid

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pre-Paid Legal Services says FTC may sue

Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may sue the company over allegedly misleading representations made by its identity theft prevention program.

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Related Topix: PrePaid Legal Services, Pre-Paid Legal Servcies, Ada, OK

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

Deal Economy 2010: Harvey Miller on Lehman, GM

Instead of allowing Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to collapse, the government could have stood by the beleaguered bank and helped it unwind slowly, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller, who represented Lehman for Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, told Matt Miller, senior writer at The Deal.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy

TechWeb.com

Obama Administration Defends Its Data Quality

Inaccuracies in stimulus-tracking data on Recovery.gov do exist, but overall the transparency effort has been a success, says a special advisor to the President.

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The Daily News

Wiggins Ready To Grab YLD Baton

NEW BLOOD: Kyle M. Wiggins, an associate at the Memphis office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, is taking the helm of the Memphis Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division tonight at the YLD's annual meeting and elections.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, PC, Shelby County, TN, Ouachita Baptist University, Paris, TN, Opinion

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Bloomberg

Homebuilding in U.S. Unexpectedly Drops on Tax-Credit, Employment Concerns

Residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in October amid concern a homebuyer tax credit would expire, illustrating the marketa s dependence on government help to sustain a recovery as job losses mount.

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Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage

SNL Financial

Report: Simon explores acquiring General Growth assets

Simon Property Group Inc. has engaged financial and legal advisers to explore the possibility of acquiring assets from General Growth Properties Inc.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Simon Property Group, Transportation, General Growth Properties, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Baltimore Sun

JHU business school moving to Legg tower in Harbor East

The Carey Business School will occupy four floors of the Legg Mason Tower. By Hanah Cho November 18, 2009 The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is relocating to the Legg Mason Tower, becoming the latest tenant to move from Baltimore's downtown to Harbor East 's waterfront.

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Related Topix: Legg Mason, Financial Services, Investment Services, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro

Ventura County Star

Legal language renders all Texas marriages moot, Democrat says

Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas, Texas Government, Gay/Lesbian

Tue Nov 17, 2009

ABA Journal

Winston & Strawn Opens Two More China Offices

Winston & Strawn is planning to open offices in Beijing and Shanghai after getting approval for the expansion by the country's Ministry of Justice.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Barclays accused of taking unfair advantage in Lehman purchase

Barclays is facing a $12bn lawsuit from the liquidators of Lehman Brothers over allegations the British bank unfairly benefited from a "windfall profit" when it bought the investment bank's US arm at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008.

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Related Topix: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services

IPBiz

Ghost-writing (plagiarism) in the biosimilar business?

In a NYT article titled In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyistsa , Robert Pear discusses how numerous Congressman had remarks which were written by a lobbyist "written in" to the Congressional Record.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Bill Pascrell, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Mon Nov 16, 2009

JD Journal

New Partners at Proskauer Rose

Proskauer Rose has elected four new partners. The four new partners are Sarah Cherry, a corporate lawyer in Boston, Baldassare Vinti and James Gregory in New York and Amy Covert in Newark.

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ABA Journal

Merged Law Firm Will Be Called Hogan Lovells

If the planned merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells becomes a reality, the new firm will be called Hogan Lovells.

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CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA

Choice of state budget boss a top concern

In late summer, with polls pointing to victory, Bob McDonnell may have realized his No.

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Town Hall

Stocks, commodities march higher;...

World stocks rose on Monday while gold, oil and other commodities rallied as upbeat economic data and a weakening dollar underpinned raw material prices and related shares.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets

Reuters

UPDATE 2-Fed's Hoenig says significant weakness in US economy

A Federal Reserve official said on Monday that the U.S. economy still faced "significant weaknesses" and urged policymakers to allow large financial institutions to fail if needed.

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Related Topix: United Arab Emirates, Middle East, World News

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Earth Times

Renters Often Unlikely Victims of Foreclosure

Often those tenants, who had been paying their rent on time, had no idea the property was in delinquency or facing foreclosure until they received notice to evict.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Real Estate, Newport Beach, CA

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