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With Drug-Tainted Past, Few Track Records Fall

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Experts speculate that the reason that so few track and field records were beaten at this year's Olympics despite continual improvements in training methods is that more stringent drug testing has resulted in fewer athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, at least at the Olympics.

Author: Zinser, Lynn
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2004
Greece, Health aspects, Achievements and awards, Olympic athletes, Drugs and athletes, Olympics, 2004 AD

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Connecticut Issues Subpoenas to Insurers

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Attorneys general in Connecticut and California are following New York's lead in investigating anticompetitve practices by the health insurance industry. They are looking into allegations of bid-rigging and price-fixing.

Author: Treaster, Joseph B.
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2004
Management dynamics, Connecticut, Securities issued, listed, Medical Service and Health Insurance, Management, Securities, Letting of contracts, Competitive bidding, Company business management, Health insurance industry, Company securities, Incentives (Business), Spitzer, Eliot, Blumenthal, Richard (American state attorney general)

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A Virus Writer Tests the Limits In Cellphones

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Brazilian programmer Marcos Velasco is proud to have created a mobile phone virus.

Author: Zeller, Tom, Jr.
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2005
General services, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Brazil, Safety and security measures, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Computer viruses, Authorship, Virus, Properties, Wireless telephone, Wireless voice/data device, Velasco, Marcos

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Subjects list: Company legal issue, Investigations, Ethical aspects
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