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Date: 26 December 2001
By Anthony Borden and Edward Girardet
Anthony Borden
Op-Ed article by Anthony Borden and Edward Girardet says urgent mission for journalism in Afghanistan is to provide ordinary Afghans with reliable information to comprehend peace process and make decisions for themselves, in order to foster stability and democracy (M)
Date: 26 December 2001
By James Brooke
James Brooke
North Korea today denounced Japan's sinking of an unidentified boat in a high seas gunbattle last Saturday as "a crime."
Date: 26 December 2001
By Eric Lipton and Kirk Johnson
Eric Lipton
Article, Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course, traces anthrax outbreak in US from Sept 21, when New York Post assistant Johanna C Huden first noticed strange blister on finger, to Nov 20, when 94-year-old Ottille Lundgren died in Connecticut of more inhalation form; scientists see in hindsight that Huden, who fully recovered, was first or index patient, but story of investigation pieced together from interviews is tale of missed cues, misread evidence and erroneous assumptions that led scientists and officials to misjudge threat to postal workers and, through mail system, American public; physicians at first strugged individually to diagnose disease they had never seen; health care system learned only through bitter experience of 5 deaths and 18 other confirmed cases; chronology; photos; microbiologists work to pinpoint nature and source of mailed anthrax, while criminal investigators search for suspect; cases in Florida, New Jersey, District of Columbia, New York and Connecticut discussed (L)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nestle pays $641 million to General Mills for 50 percent it did not own in Ice Cream Partners USA, which sells Haagen-Dazs ice cream in United States (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warren E Buffett takes 5.1 percent stake in Burnham Pacific Properties, which is liquidating its holdings after effort to sell company fails (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entercom Communications Corp will acquire three radio stations in Denver from Tribune Co for $180 million (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Equity Office Properties Trust, leading owner of office buildings, sells 18 industrial properties with 5.5 million square feet in Northern California and Oregon to Rreef for $212.9 million (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
WPS Resources Corp, owner of Wisconsin Public Service Corp, agrees to buy three power plants in New York from CH Energy Group for $61 million (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Patterson-UTI Energy, which provides drilling services to oil and natural gas exploration companies, acquires 17 land-drilling rigs from Cleere Drilling Co for at least $23.4 million in cash and stock (S)
Date: 27 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
France reports manufacturers cut prices by 0.6 percent in Nov (S)