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Report: Verizon Also Pursuing MCI Deal

NEW YORK – Telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) has reportedly floated an informal buyout offer for MCI Corp. (MCI) , the long distance telephone company that has been awash in takeover speculation in the wake of regional phone company SBC Communications Inc.’s (SBC) $16 billion deal for AT&T Corp.(T). …

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Happiness Can Trump Illness

As devastating as illness can be, it doesn’t have the power to permanently steal every ounce of happiness. But healthy people sometimes overlook happiness, while their ailing peers are more attuned to it. That’s what Jason Riis and colleagues found in comparing 49 kidney dialysis patients with 49 healthy people. …

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Bush Taps Rosen as Economics Chair

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday promoted Harvey Rosen to be chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, the group that advises him on economic issues and prepares the administration’s annual economic report to Congress Rosen, a former economics professor at Princeton University, is a member of the council. He …

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