ON New Year’s Day, the company I work for, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, will move me from Washington to Paris, where I will become a regional vice president of the company and general manager of the Hotel George V, which it manages. Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York TimesGathering the frequent-mover miles: From left are Christian and Meg Clerc, and their daughters, Eleanor and Georgia,...
Genetic Gamble : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
Label: HealthC.J. Gunther for The New York TimesDr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to restore a tendency of damaged cells to self-destruct. For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs...
Genetic Gamble : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
Label: LifestyleC.J. Gunther for The New York TimesDr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to restore a tendency of damaged cells to self-destruct. For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs...
The Boss: Blair LaCorte of XOJet, on an Unintended Career Turn
Label: TechnologyI WAS born prematurely with hyaline membrane disease, also called infant respiratory distress syndrome. The doctors kept my mother from seeing me while they waited a day or two to see how I’d do. She wasn’t happy about it, and climbed out on a window ledge to force the issue. Police cars converged, as the officers didn’t know she was just trying to make a point. A female doctor worked with my mom...
Chinese-American Faces Trial in China Over Business Dispute
Label: WorldBEIJING — As his family tells it, Vincent Wu is an industrious Chinese-American immigrant who sold his family’s suburban Los Angeles home to finance the construction of a shopping center in China he thought would allow him to retire early. To the police in Huizhou, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, Mr. Wu, 54, is a Mafia kingpin and illegal casino operator who dispatched his enemies through...
Dec
21
Vernice D. Ferguson, Leader and Advocate of Nurses, Dies at 84
Label: HealthVernice D. Ferguson, who fought for greater opportunities, higher wages and more respect for nurses as a longtime chief nursing officer for the Veterans Administration, died on Dec. 8 at her home in Washington. She was 84. NYU PhotobureauVernice D. Ferguson served at the Veterans Administration. Her niece Hope Ferguson confirmed her death. America...
Vernice D. Ferguson, Leader and Advocate of Nurses, Dies at 84
Label: LifestyleVernice D. Ferguson, who fought for greater opportunities, higher wages and more respect for nurses as a longtime chief nursing officer for the Veterans Administration, died on Dec. 8 at her home in Washington. She was 84. NYU PhotobureauVernice D. Ferguson served at the Veterans Administration. Her niece Hope Ferguson confirmed her death. America...
As Shoppers Hop From Tablet to PC to Phone, Retailers Try to Adapt
Label: TechnologyJim Wilson/The New York TimesShoppers often visit ModCloth, a Web site that sells women’s clothes, on their phones but return on a different kind of device to buy something, said Sarah Rose, a vice president at ModCloth. Ryan O’Neil, a Connecticut government employee, was in the market to buy a digital weather station this month. His wife researched options on their iPad, but even though she found...
Ben Ali’s Possessions to Be Auctioned in Tunisia
Label: WorldTUNIS — It could be the Middle East’s most opulent yard sale. Just in time for Christmas, Tunisia’s Finance Ministry has organized a public auction of cars, jewels, carpets and trinkets that once belonged to the deposed president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the first autocrat to fall in the Arab Spring revolution incubated here two years ago. The monthlong sale and exhibition of 12,000...
Dec
20
Boehner Tax Plan in House Is Pulled, Lacking Votes
Label: BusinessBrendan Hoffman for The New York TimesSpeaker John A. Boehner of Ohio leaving a meeting Thursday with fellow House Republicans on talks over the “fiscal cliff.” WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner’s effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than two weeks collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat after conservative Republicans refused to support legislation that...
Op-Ed Contributor: Labs, Washed Away
Label: HealthBEDPAN ALLEY is the affectionate name given to a stretch of First Avenue in Manhattan that is packed with more hospitals than many cities possess. This stretch also happened to be right in the flood zone during Hurricane Sandy. Water damage and power failures closed down all three of the New York University teaching hospitals — Bellevue Hospital, Tisch Hospital and the Manhattan V.A. Two months later,...
Op-Ed Contributor: Labs, Washed Away
Label: LifestyleBEDPAN ALLEY is the affectionate name given to a stretch of First Avenue in Manhattan that is packed with more hospitals than many cities possess. This stretch also happened to be right in the flood zone during Hurricane Sandy. Water damage and power failures closed down all three of the New York University teaching hospitals — Bellevue Hospital, Tisch Hospital and the Manhattan V.A. Two months later,...
Bits Blog: Instagram Does an About-Face
Label: Technology 11:14 p.m. | Updated SAN FRANCISCO — In the aftermath of the uproar over changes to Instagram’s privacy policy and terms of service earlier this week, the company did an about-face late Thursday.In a blog post on the company’s site, Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s co-founder, said that where advertising was concerned, the company would revert to its previous terms of service, which have been in effect...
India Ink: Modi Victory Speech Comes With Apology
Label: WorldAddressing a large crowd of cheering supporters Thursday evening after the Bharatiya Janata Party won a decisive victory in the state elections in Gujarat, its polarizing leader Narendra Modi thanked the state’s voters for coming out in large numbers, even as he appeared to reach out to Indians all over the country.“Whether they are in Assam or Kerala or Jammu and Kashmir,” Mr. Modi said in a 45-minute...
Dec
19
BBC Inquiry Blames Rigid Management for Mishandling Sex Abuse Scandal
Label: Business The 200-page report by Nick Pollard, a veteran British broadcast executive, strongly criticized the editorial and management decisions that prompted the BBC to cancel a broadcast last year that would have exposed decades of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile, a BBC fixture who had been one of Britain’s best-known television personalities. While the scandal led to the resignation and reassignment...
U.N. Suspends Polio Campaign in Pakistan After Killings of Workers
Label: HealthB.K. Bangash/Associated PressA Pakistani woman administered polio vaccine to an infant on Wednesday in the slums of Islamabad. Militants have killed eight polio workers over three days. LAHORE, Pakistan — The front-line heroes of Pakistan’s war on polio are its volunteers: young women who tread fearlessly from door to door, in slums and highland villages, administering precious drops of vaccine to...
U.N. Suspends Polio Campaign in Pakistan After Killings of Workers
Label: LifestyleB.K. Bangash/Associated PressA Pakistani woman administered polio vaccine to an infant on Wednesday in the slums of Islamabad. Militants have killed eight polio workers over three days. LAHORE, Pakistan — The front-line heroes of Pakistan’s war on polio are its volunteers: young women who tread fearlessly from door to door, in slums and highland villages, administering precious drops of vaccine to...
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