The trajectory of business over time might be undulating -- booms and busts, mergers and breakups, flotations and privatizations -- but is it really cyclical? Capitalism dictates growth, and the biggest companies have, in the telescopic view at least, grown bigger and more powerful and taken greater shares of their global markets. The trajectory of business over time might be undulating -- booms and busts, mergers and breakups, flotations and privatizations -- but is it really cyclical?...

Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people. Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for the Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan...

He gets calls from a couple dozen contacts who tip him off when a scarce commodity - which nowadays in Zimbabwe includes all basic needs - is about to appear in a store. Shumba spends his days on a motorbike sniffing out almost-impossible-to-find items such as sugar, cooking oil, bread, margarine, or cellphone SIM cards, risking years in a dank prison if caught. But President Robert Mugabe's increasingly draconian efforts to control the lurching economy by imposing price controls was a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food donations to the world's hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations. Part of the story behind that jump is growing demand for corn-based ethanol, an alternative to gasoline, which helped push spot maize prices to a 10-year high earlier this year. Little is certain this early into the price boom, but aid professionals are already clear who will lose out unless donor countries...

World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FIP) Strong international leadership was the theme of the inaugural address of the president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation when he opened the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Beijing, China. World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FIP) Strong international leadership was the theme of the inaugural address of the president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation when he...