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Date: 05 December 2002
By Jennifer Steinhauer
Jennifer Steinhauer
New York City establishes Web site offering live coverage of mayoral news conferences, announcements and bill signings and another for City Council meetings (S)
Date: 04 December 2002
By Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn
Harvard Law School study finds China has tightest Internet censorship in world, regularly denying local users access to 19,000 Web sites and sometimes punishing those who seek out forbidden sites by denying them Internet access altogether (M)
Date: 04 December 2002
By Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Polgreen
Dane Martin, who was assistant deputy warden with New York City Corrections Dept, files suit accusing city of violating his civil rights by demoting him after he made critical comments about proposed budget cuts to newspaper reporter; alleges he was given poor job review day after article that included his comments was published in Newsday (M)
Date: 05 December 2002
By Bill Finley
Bill Finley
Princeton University basketball player Ed Persia makes last-second, game-winning shot in game from 80 feet away, earning attention from Princeton campus and national media; photo (M)
Date: 05 December 2002
By Amy Waldman (NYT)
Amy NYT
Maoist rebels e-mail newspapers message that they will stop violent protests and begin talks for peaceful solution to conflict in Nepal (S)
Date: 04 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corixa Corp says Food and Drug Administration will again consider approving company's Bexxar radiation-drug treatment for lymphoma, setting off 21 percent increase in its share price; FDA rejected Bexxar in March (S)
Date: 04 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Merck & Co reaffirms jits profit forecast for this year and next after company's shares fall as much as 8 percent on concern about earnings (S)
Date: 05 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Magellan Health Services names Steven Shulman chief executive (S)
Date: 05 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Roche Holding says it intends to capture half of $2 billion market for hepatitis C medicines after winning Food and Durg Administration approval to sell drug ribavirn and promote its use with its Pegasys interferon drug (S)
Date: 05 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Leading drug wholesaler Cardinal Health will proceed with its purchase of pharmacy-services provider Syncor International Corp at reduced price after Syncor reached settlement of bribery charges; amended accord cuts $1.1 billion offer by $90 million (S)