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“Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks
OVER THE WEEKEND
British millionaire Paul Bailey lost control and crashed his Porsche 918 at a motor show injuring 28 people…Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke in a USA Today interview said more execs involved in the 2008 financial crisis should have gone to jail…At least seven people are dead and hundreds need rescue as South Carolina battles record rainfall…Hillary Clinton was on SNL.
NOBLE PRIZE
Three scientists, William Campbell (Ireland), Satoshi Omura (Japan) developers of Avermectin and Youyou Tu (China) who discovered Artemisinin, are the winners of this years $960,000 (8 million Swedish crowns) Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of “therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of some of the most devastating parasitic diseases. Avermectin has helped to radically reduce the incidence of river blindness and elephantiasis caused by parasitic worms that affects 1/3 of the world’s population; Artemisinin significantly reduced deaths from malaria by mosquitos. [NY TIMES]
HEROIN
A rash of overdoses in the past week has investigators lookign to find the cause and that means looking at similar incidents in 2006 of heorin laced with Fentanyl
AMERICAN APPAREL
After many years of losses since 2010, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and a restructuring agreement that will lower their debt to no more than $135 million order to implement a transformation strategy to revitalize the business. Under the agreement, more than $200 million bonds will be exchanged for stock. Peter Francis Geraci? [BLOOMBERG]
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
The region of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan was hit by US airstrikes killing 22 people, including 12 hospital staff members and forcing the humanitarian group to withdraw from the region.
LOOK OF THE DAY
• Rihanna @ Dior
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