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Captains of the state’s retirement, health care and education systems round out the top 10 highest paid employees in the 2008 Journal of Salaries, an annual list of all positions created by state statute.
The only other top earner with a salary of more than $200,000 is Dr. Don Williamson, the state health officer. Williamson earns [...]

By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. [...]

By Tim Castle
LONDON (Reuters) - A new pay contract for family doctors in England cost 1.76 billion pounds more than budgeted and has failed to deliver expected improvements in patient care, the government’s accounting watchdog said on Thursday.
The salaries of partners in GP surgeries have soared 58 percent since the contract [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in [...]

(The following statement was released by the ratings agency)
March 18 - Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the speculative grade
liquidity rating of VeraSun Energy Corporation (VSE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (”VeraSun” B2 corporate
family rating / stable outlook) to SGL-3 from SGL-1. The rating on the $210
million senior secured notes due 2012 was [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. But it was a freezing and stormy day as the American B-24 Liberator [...]

White working-class teenagers perform worse than their black and Asian classmates in GCSEs, a government-backed study has found.White 16-year-olds from poorer backgrounds make the least progress at secondary school of any ethnic or national group, the research, published today by Warwick University, argues.Living in poverty, rented accommodation and deprived neighbourhoods has a worse effect on [...]