Switzerland takes on its top drugmakers in price row
ZURICH: Switzerland, home to the world’s two biggest drugmakers, might be expected to give them an easy ride. But Roche and Novartis are finding no immunity in their home market from a European-wide price squeeze. Governments and healthcare authorities ...
Number of websites explodes past a billion (and counting)
San Francisco (AFP) - The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace, according to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet Live Stats. Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, touted the milestone on Twitter -- one of the most prominent w ...
Aussies sweating on Davis Cup draw
A nightmare away showdown with Roger Federer's Switzerland is the draw Australia's Davis Cup team is looking to avoid.
A whole big pile of books
Whiskey Sour (by J. A. Konrath) This is a perfectly fine book in the category of "cop versus serial killer". And hey, it's free with the Kindle Unlimited thing, which I decided to try for a month (just when everyone else is boycotting Amazon, which makes me feel a little guilty). There are books I k ...
Hot News: Liverpool-Ludogorets Live: Reds Win Dramatically In Champions League Return
> Final, 2-1 Liverpool: The game is over. Liverpool wins in its Champions League return. >It's fitting that Liverpool's first Champions League game in almost five years ended so dramatically. While Liverpool outplayed Ludogorets, a team which is inferior on paper, its victory never was cer ...
Loc on For the Clerisy 80 (Brant Kresovich, ed.)
Dear Brant: Many thanks for issue 80 of For the Clerisy, and you find me fully employed (different job than the summer), and with less and less time to write letters. Let's see how I do this time. Certainly a different page 1. I knew the origins of the names Jughead and Betty, even if I wasn't a com ...
Welbeck the biggest worry for outclassed Arsenal
Well Beat: Danny Welbeck sees the first of several attempts miss the target in Tuesday night’s 2-0 defeat at Dortmund. Arsene Wenger will be glad to have got the hardest of Champions League group stage openers out of the way. At least he hopes. As the Borussia Dortmund players exited the rocking Wes ...
