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• Uproar in Paris after 59-year-old has triplets
The mother and the babies were all in good health. The hospital declined to give any further details. There has been a trickle of births by women in their late 50s and in their 60s in various countries since 1994, when Italian fertility doctor Severino ...
• Boeing machinists on strike after talks fail
Key strike issues include pay, outsourcing, retirement and health care benefits. The company said it would not try to assemble planes during the strike.
• Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors
BAGHDAD - A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital — one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. Doctors are just a tiny group ...
• Altria to buy smokeless tobacco maker
American smokers are buying fewer cigarettes as smoking bans and health concerns dampen demand by 3 percent to 4 percent a year. That has forced tobacco companies to look for sales growth from alternatives such as cigars, chewing tobacco and ...
• The price McCain pays
The speech contained only one serious falsehood: the charge that Obama would “force families into a government-run health care system where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor.” It was withering in its rhetorical critique of McCain ...