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Selling Drug Secrets
Despite confidentiality contracts, doctors are divulging details of their ongoing drug research - for a fee - to elite investors eager to get an edge in the market. Experts say the practice breaks insider trading laws, violates medical ethics and jeopardizes vital research. And government regulators seem to know nothing about it. We found 26 cases in which doctors leaked confidential and critical details of their ongoing research to Wall Street firms.
Tags: doctors; drug research; pharmaceuticals; insider trading; physicians; medical; CAR
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Doing Business with the Enemy
60 Minutes discovered that companies like Halliburton and General Electric that pension plans and mutual funds invest in heavily were doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
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Trust bank has long history of angry investors
This investigation centers on Security Trust, which the New York attorney general had implicated in a scheme of illegal after hours trading though the company had not been charged. USA Today uncovered records that showed more than a dozen lawsuits against Security Trust officers and related companies as well as censures and cease-and-desist orders by the Arizona State Banking Department.
Tags: mutual funds; banking; securities; Securities and Exchange Commission; SEC; investment fraud; stock market
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The Town NAFTA Forgot
This article tells the story of a town, Nogales, split between Arizona and Mexico. The Mexican portion is flourishing while the Arizona town suffers. Both towns are defined by their location and their foreign half.
Tags: maquiladora; North American Free Trade Agreement; border
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The Insiders
Having received as many brickbats as bouquets, or even more, Martha Stewart has survived tough times. This Newsweek story delves into the insider-trading controversy involving Stewart and ImClone. Detailing Stewart's high-profile interactions with business bigshots, the article also takes a look at how the scandal might hit Stewart's business and her brand equity. And whether she'll survive it or not.
Tags: Martha Stewart; stocks; scandals; jet set; trading; ImClone; Bacanovic
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Slavery of the Brothel
An extensive account of the growing sex slave trade in the Balkans -- particularly Kosovo. "A virulent Mafia business is thriving in postwar Kosovo: the $7 to $12 billion traffic in Eastern European women lured by promises of work, then forced into prostitution. Despite international efforts, sex slave traders have been nearly impossible to prosecute, thanks to corruption, local laws, and the victims' fear of testifying. Tracing the path of one young Moldovan woman, Sebastian Junger conducts his own investigation of a vicious cycle that traps as many as 200,000 women a year."
Tags: sex; sex slavery; slavery; brothel; prostitution; prostitute; hooker; strip; strip club; sexual abuse; mafia; organized crime; balkans; kosovo; serbia; moldova; bulgaria
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
The author examines the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from an engineering perspective. He discusses how the rescue teams went about deconstructing the collapsed towers, the physics behind the building structures and how different engineers involved in the original construction felt about the attacks.
Tags: September 11; engineering
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Schwab vs Wall Street
Having redefined the business, first by founding the brokerage to exploit the end of fixed-price stock trading commissions in 1975, Schwab is looking for innovation again. BusinessWeek investigates and analyzes the latest strategy of Wall Street's famous challenger who aims to extend his business to advising from discount brokerage alone. The story says that though Schwab's might not be the most experienced for large-scale advise, his often overlooked innovations have run over his competitors.
Tags: Chuck; brokerage; online trading
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"Fake drugs find their way into Rx supply; consumers can't be sure whether medicines are real, pure or full strength"
Although the FDA has said fake drugs aren't a large problem across the country, south Florida appears to be the hub for the counterfeiting and distribution that occurs. This investigation found that ex-convicts have obtained licenses to be drug wholesalers, and many of them are buying drugs off patients or off the street, diluting them and reselling for high profits. State regulation hasn't caught up with the problem, and there's no way to know how many patients have received fake drugs.
Tags: pharmacy; wholesaler; FDA; counterfeit; cancer; AIDS; patients
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Burning Questions
President Bush pushed for the passage of the "Clear Skies Act" and wanted to develop an emissions - trading program to replace some of the regulations of the Clean Air Act. Kriz examines the politics behind the decision and questions its effectiveness. The article also examines the controversy over coal - fired power plants.
Tags: Clean Air Act; EPA; emissions; pollution; coal; power plants