Intake Of Dietary Copper Helps Alzheimer's Patients Oct 5, 2005
(April 14, 2005) -- In a study of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), those who took the drug donepezil were at reduced risk of progressing to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the first year. . (Science Daily)
Post-Katrina landscape turned into wireless lab Oct 5, 2005
Eventually, BellSouth donated additional bandwidth, and MCI donated a 45-megabit per second DS3 line that Dearman used to light up southern Mississippi, including Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Pearlington and Diamondhead. Trango Broadband also donated radio equipment to expand the network. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Kozlowski, Swartz lose bids for bail Oct 5, 2005
MCI to pay $331 million. MCI Inc. has agreed to pay $331 million to Florida, 15 other states and the District of Columbia to settle accusations that it engaged in accounting fraud, the company and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office said Monday ... The two settlements dealt with MCI-WorldCom tax filings from 1999 to 2002, in which state authorities alleged transfers between subsidiaries were illegally classified as a business expense exempt from state tax laws. (Orlando Sentinel -- Business)
Pharr firm caught in legal mess Oct 5, 2005
He suspects the brakes on the tag axle may have stopped working because they were "cammed over," the same phenomenon that contributed to a 1999 bus accident involving a different model MCI bus near the Santa Fe ski basin in New Mexico. There were two fatalities and 35 injuries in that accident. (McAllen Monitor, TX)
