An asbestos chapter closes
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. and Bear Stearns Inc. agreed to acquire Johns Manville Corp. in a $3 billion leveraged buyout, ending control of the No.2 maker of construction materials by a trust for
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. and Bear Stearns Inc. agreed to acquire Johns Manville Corp. in a $3 billion leveraged buyout, ending control of the No.2 maker of construction materials by a trust for
Medical services in South Korea were disrupted as tens of thousands of doctors closed their clinics and walked out of hospitals to protest a government reform they feared would deprive them of a
IBM slims a billion bytes : Plunging deep into the world of pocket sized personal computing, International Business Machines Corp. introduced a version of its tiny Microdrive hard drive with a
Bone from skin : Taking a less-traveled path in the quest to replace damaged organs with parts grown in the laboratory, a professor at the University of California reports that he has changed human
President Bill Clinton has proposed using $58 billion of the projected budget surplus over the next decade to ensure that no senior citizen pays more than $4,000 a year for prescription drugs. The
Scientists have pinpointed a highly toxic bacteria as the cause of a mysterious illness that has killed at least 35 heroin addicts, public health officials said. The source of the outbreak, which
A threat by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to seize the assets of foreign mining companies dealt a further blow to investor confidence in a country already suffering political and economic
In imitation of pirate radio stations and offshore casinos, a Dutch doctor is raising money to outfit a ship to bring abortion services to international waters just outside countries where they are
In eastern Nebraska, in a swath of the Gulf Coast from Florida to New Orleans, in the hills of West Texas and in Georgia and Alabama, pockets of extraordinary drought, by some measures the worst in a
Homocysteine, an amino acid produced in the body, may rival cholesterol as a leading factor in heart disease according to researchers and some physicians. At high levels, homcysteine may irritate