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DETROIT–Retail health clinics have made their way into metro Detroit and are competing with doctors’ offices for routine patient visits. Clinics contend that the quality of care is high and that when a patient requires urgent care or a visit to a physician’s office, the process is seamless, said May Hang, manager […]

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MICHIGAN–Manufacturers in Michigan and the rest of the country are benefiting from a weak dollar that is making their goods sold abroad cheaper, while imported goods are becoming more costly. In fact, a boom in Michigan exports is one of few bright spots in a mostly gloomy state economy. Exports from Michigan […]

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Alternative investing is hot. But you already knew that. Assets under management in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and other formerly obscure realms have been exploding for the better part of a decade now. Slightly less obvious in the financial universe is the trend’s influence on the conventional money management […]

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MUMBAI, INDIA–India’s leading software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a multi-year contract with US-based automobile manufacturer Chrysler to provide a comprehensive portfolio of IT services. According to the agreement, TCS will deliver IT application and maintenance support services to Chrysler by leveraging its Global Network Delivery Model from various locations […]

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WALL STREET JOURNAL–Senator Clinton’s main tax proposal is to repeal the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, raising rates to the levels of the Clinton Presidency. “We didn’t ask for George Bush’s tax cuts. We didn’t want them, and we didn’t need them,” Mrs. Clinton explained.
But her higher tax rates wouldn’t merely […]

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The UK’s Online Journalism Blog features maps that show the world in 2007 through the eyes of editors-in-chief. The larger (smaller) the country on the maps, the more (less) media attention. See the world according to London’s The Sun above.
Looking at the three British dailies, editors favour countries that are bigger […]

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Some of the conclusions from the article UNFAIR TRADE, by the Adam Smith Institute:
1. The Fairtrade certification system and the Fair Trade movement from which it springs are fundamentally unfair. They offer a small improvement in prices to very few primary producers, while leaving most out in the cold and possibly even […]

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TECH CRUNCH–Countless startups, such as Sun, Yahoo and Google (as well as newcomers like Meebo) were started at Stanford, or by Stanford graduates. Now Stanford wants to help its students by providing seed funding directly, and in the process will get a little equity in those new ideas, too.
Stanford Student Enterprises, a […]

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