Pfizer Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled, despite competition from generic drugs hurting sales of Lipitor and other medicines, because of a $4.8 billion gain from selling its nutrition business. The drugmaker's profit and sales both beat Wall Street expectations. The world's biggest drugmaker said Tuesday that its net income was $6.32 billion, or 85 cents per share, up...
Jan
28
'Argo' producer scours for the next stranger-than-fiction story
Label: World Hunched over a desk in his spartan Westwood apartment, David Klawans squints at his computer monitor and knits his brow in concentration....
The Power of Paying: What Consumer Hotshots Can Learn From Corporate Drudges
Label: Technology Sometimes these days interoperability seems like a lost cause in the technology world. Twitter has been making life hard for startups that make Twitter clients; Facebook has been making life equally hard for Twitter; and Google is preventing anyone else from adding content to its own social network, Google+.But even as the aforementioned advertising-driven companies have made life hard for...
Well: Keeping Blood Pressure in Check
Label: HealthSince the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease.Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have it under control, up from 29 percent in 2000.But that means more than half, including many receiving treatment, have...
Little Change on Wall Street
Label: BusinessWall Street stocks opened flat on Monday despite strong economic data and earnings results from Caterpillar, after a rally last week that took the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index above 1,500 for the first time in more than five years. The S.&P. 500 was off about a point in early trading, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 4 points, and the Nasdaq composite index added 0.1...
Lace 'Em Up: 4 Running Shoes Reviewed
Label: TechnologyHitting the streets to get fit by spring? We review four new specialty sneakers for runners.Adidas' Adizero Feather 2.0 runners are so light (barely 7 ounces) and so responsive, running in them feels more like bouncing on fluffy clouds than pounding on pavement. OK, I'm exaggerating, but I was really blown away by the light weight when I took them out on long-distance runs. So effective was the feather-weight...
Well: Ask Well: Squats for Aging Knees
Label: HealthYou are already doing many things right, in terms of taking care of your aging knees. In particular, it sounds as if you are keeping your weight under control. Carrying extra pounds undoubtedly strains knees and contributes to pain and eventually arthritis.You mention weight training, too, which is also valuable. Sturdy leg muscles, particularly those at the front and back of the thighs, stabilize...
J. Richard Hackman, an Expert in Team Dynamics, Dies at 72
Label: BusinessJ. Richard Hackman, a Harvard psychology professor whose fieldwork sometimes took him to the cockpit of an airliner to observe the crew in a nearly five-decade quest to determine the dynamics of teamwork and effective leadership, died on Jan. 8 in Boston. He was 72. The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Judith Dozier Hackman, said. Dr. Hackman, the author or co-author of 10 books on...
Jan
26
China's smog taints economy, health
Label: World BEIJING — When a thick quilt of smog enveloped swaths of China earlier this month, it set in motion a costly chain reaction...
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