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Date: 18 July 2000
By Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata column on recent ado over early phase testing of Alzheimer's disease vaccine; discusses ethics of reporting research on drugs that may never make it to market (M)
Date: 17 July 2000
By Rebecca Fairley Raney
Rebecca Raney
SpeakOut.com and Voter.com, two commercial Web sites, are covering the elections and political conventions while maintaining partnerships under contract with the political parties; maintain that their news operations are entirely separate from their political divisions (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
ABC News reports agreement with National Football League to change starting times of two Monday night preseason games, allowing network to devote an hour of prime-time coverage each to Democratic and Republican National conventions (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
Pres Clinton's telephone call to New York Daily News to defend Hillary Rodham Clinton against accusations that she made anti-Semitic slur during argument in 1974 seems to have backfired since effort to snuff out controversy seems to have added fuel to it (M)
Date: 17 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Circulation has fallen by a third at Detroit News and Detroit Free Press as result of strike that is now five years old; Gannett's News and Knight Ridder's Free Press have operated with replacement workers and, eventually, many returning strikers, but a union-led boycott takes its toll; management knows that winning back lost readers will require ending the boycott by settling with the six striking unions and by finding ways to manage newsrooms and mailrooms and printing presses with workers who once cursed each other across picket lines; photo (M)
Date: 17 July 2000
By Sam Dillon
Sam Dillon
Officials of Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party reportedly pressured newspaper editors and television producers not to publish results of surveys which showed opposition presidential candidate Vicente Fox winning election over party's candidate Francisco Labastida; some editors were sidelined by newspapers after producing such polls, and others received phone threats; most published polls published by final deadline two weeks ahead of vote showed Labastida ahead; Fox's victory by seven percentage points stunned everyone and has led to debate over whether many respected pollsters erred or whether millions of voters changed minds at last minute (M)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cephalon Inc acquires Anesta Corp for $444 million in stock to add more cancer-treatment products (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mediq Inc, medical-equipment rental company, hires Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities to explore alternatives for its critical-care and life-support systems unit and will cut 126 more jobs there (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apex Oil Co raises its bid for Crown Central Petroleum Corp to $10.50 a share in cash, topping its earlier hostile bid of $10 and competing offer of $9.50 a share from Rosemore Inc (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gibraltar Steel Corp, steel processor, acquires Milcor LP (S)