Li & Fung to Raise $348 Million for Acquisitions in U.S., Asia
Bloomberg
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Li & Fung Ltd. , the biggest supplier of clothes and toys to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. , plans to raise HK$2.7 billion ($348 million) selling new shares at a discount to fund acquisitions in the U.S. and Asi...
Fiat boss touts plans for new car giant
AFP via Yahoo! News
The boss of Italy's Fiat touted bold plans to create a new global auto giant by grabbing General Motors' European arm and merging it with Chrysler, in talks with sceptical German ministers on Monday.
Moscow calls libelous alleged growth of military presence near Georgia.
Itar-Tass
MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry has called libelous claims that Russia has allegedly enlarged its military presence near the Georgian border in order to influence Georgian domestic affairs.
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Livingston Enterprise
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Brain Anatomy Could Point to Autism
HealthDay via Yahoo! News
MONDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Autistic toddlers seem more likely to have an enlarged amygdala, a brain area linked with facial recognition and emotions, University of North Carolina researchers report.
Girl lives without heart for four months
Pravda
D’Zhana and her parents discovered in the spring of 2008 that the girl’s heart was enlarged. The heart was unable to pump blood through D’Zhana’s body. The family flew from South Carolina to Miami’s Holtz Children’s Hospital. The girl had ....
The Promise and Peril of a Congressional Majority
Washington Post
By Dan Balz The last president who had congressional majorities comparable to those President Obama now enjoys was Jimmy Carter. That's not to draw a direct comparison between the presidencies of Obama and Carter, but only to suggest that b...
Rio May Cut Chinalco’s Share of Planned Bond Sale, FT Says
Bloomberg
Chinalco, as the state-owned company is known, may be asked to buy convertible bonds worth 5 percent of Rio’s enlarged offer, rather than about 8 percent now, the paper said citing a “compromise scenario” that may help overcome shareholder ...
US Teen Survives 4 Months Without a Heart
Chattahbox.com
She was speaking at a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Simmons, 14, suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the patient’s heart becomes weakened and enlarged and does not pump bl...
New View Inside Bacteria Could Improve Health
LiveScience.com
An "isosurface" rendering of an enlarged view of a C. crescentus sacculus (bacterial cell wall). A possible glycan strand is boxed in blue. Credit: Lu Gan, Caltech, PNAS. A 25-nm thick slice through the 3-D reconstruction of a C. crescentus...
Imaging Study Finds Evidence of Brain Abnormalities in Toddlers with Autism
Newswise
Toddlers with autism appear more likely to have an enlarged amygdala, a brain area associated with numerous functions, including the processing of faces and emotion, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, ...
Brain abnormality found in tots with autism
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Young children with autism appear more likely to have enlarged amygdale—the part of the brain associated with registering faces and with expressing key emotions, according to a study released Monday.
Li & Fung to Raise $348 Million to Fund Acquisitions (Update2)
Bloomberg
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Li & Fung Ltd. , the biggest supplier of clothes and toys to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp., plans to raise HK$2.7 billion ($348 million) selling new shares to fund acquisitions.
Plunkett to replace Onions
PA Sport via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport
Liam Plunkett has been called into Durham's squad to replace England-bound Graham Onions for the champions' LV County Championship Division One match with Sussex at Hove.
