AIG E-Mail Trail Chronicles Crisis This story was written by Brady Dennis. The probing e-mails came from every direction inside insurance giant American International Group during the summer and fall of 2007, all with the same underlying question: Could Joe Cassano back up his assurances — to auditors, rating companies, colleagues and shareholders — that [...]
Roll up, roll up EACH decade, it seems, threatens to ring the death knell for popular cinema – and the 2000s proved no different. If anything, it was an unusually doom-laden decade as a phalanx of assassins ganged up to administer a fatal blow. The home entertainment boom. Digital technology. Overhead-free filmmaking. Mobile phones. The [...]
MORE doctors should offer appointments outside normal hours to improve access for working patients, campaigners demanded yesterday. Figures show that only 67 per cent of GP practices in Scotland had agreed to offer extended opening, up from around 60 per cent in March. The Scotland Patients Association said that more should join the scheme, offering [...]
Vince Avalos, the Asian Art Museum’s mountmaker, has a complete metal shop at his disposal, and he needs it. Every object displayed there has to be secured against an earthquake of 1906 intensity. Images View Larger Image Galleries Review: ‘New Images of Man and Woman’ 12.26.09 Jude Rae’s watercolors with a wink of homage 12.05.09 [...]
Inhaling oxygen could zap the agony of cluster headaches, according to research. Although oxygen is recommended as a therapy by some experts, it is not widely used in the UK Also could a jab of Botox in the scalp be a new way to treat some forms of baldness? Inhaling oxygen could zap the agony [...]