| Brookline Store Owner Gives $1 Million Lottery Ticket As Gift
BROOKLINE, Pa. -- A gift that only cost $20 ended up being worth $1 million. Nobody was more surprised than the man who gave it. He's a pharmacy owner who gave a lucky gift to someone he loves. It all began days before Christmas, when the owner of the Medicine Shoppe in Brookline, Fred Depasquale, bought 30 tickets in his store, for the lottery's millionaire raffle. At $20 each, Depasquale gave most of those tickets to family and friends as Christmas gifts. Depasquale kept five of the tickets for himself and admitted that he and his family members forgot about them and never bothered to check their numbers the night of the lottery. When the Lottery Commission came knocking on his door Monday to say he sold one of the winning tickets, Depasquale's wife told the relatives to check their numbers.
Trouble Brewing? - Merck, Schering-Plough Get New York Subpoena Over ...
1/27/2008 1:43:13 AM New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) and Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) on Saturday seeking documents to probe whether the companies had concealed the study results of their controversial blockbuster drug Vyotrin.
Cuomo in a statement said, We will investigate and, when appropriate, hold accountable drug companies for engaging in irresponsible and deceptive conduct and any deceitful marketing of prescription drugs."
The issuance of this subpoena comes a day after the FDA said it would review the effectiveness of Vyotrin after Merck released the long-awaited study results of that drug.
MRK closed Friday's trade down 3.57% or $1.77 at $47.79 on a volume of 64.98 million shares. In after-hours, the stock shed another $0.19 and was at $47.60.
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire
When, in July 1980, he ascended from V-P to presidency, following the death of his predecessor, his leadership kept Botswana on the path of remarkable post-independence economic growth rate of some 10 per cent per annum one of the highest in the world. That was unlike the situation in most of post-colonial Africa where the second generation of leaders drove their countries to ruins, if the founding the fathers had not done that already. Most of Botswanas growth came from diamonds, the nations leading export earner. It is one of the African countries where mineral wealth has not caused more pain than joy. Asked during one of his lectures why Botswana essentially escaped the resource curse that has affected many African countries, Masire had four reasons.
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