| Langham launches second hotel in China
Langham Hotels International (LHI) is opening a five-star hotel called the Langham Place Hotel in Changchun, north east China. The 34-storey hotel to be accommodated inside the existing Jinzuo Building will comprise 350 bedrooms and 100 serviced apartments, a 3,000sq m (32,300sq ft) multi-purpose function space, including a ballroom, as well as four food and beverage outlets. The hotels Chuan Spa and Residences facility will provide treatments based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophies. Changchun Jinzuo Real Estate Development will build the hotel, which will open in 2009. K. S. Lo, chair of the hotel group, said: The boom in the tourism and convention and exhibition industry in Changchun in recent years has spurred a strong demand for quality hotels.
A Budding Mom's Highs and Lows
Heavily pregnant Chongqing policewoman Liu Liu leaves office for a yoga institute nearby. Although Liu's husband offers her a lift, the 30-year-old insists on getting there by foot. After changing, she strokes her ball-like belly tenderly, saying: "Hi, my little baby, let's do yoga together." There are more than 10 women waiting for her, for the near full-term expectant mom is their part-time yoga tutor at the Jiayi Yoga House. .
The CNN Wire: Tuesday, July 24
No recount in race for House seat in Georgia (CNN) -- Former Georgia state Sen. Jim Whitehead announced Tuesday that he will not seek a recount in the race for the state's 10th Congressional District, clearing the way for Paul Broun to claim the House seat that's been vacant since Rep. Charlie Norwood's death from cancer in February. Broun, 60, a doctor from Athens, defeated Whitehead by just 394 votes in a runoff last week, according to results certified Monday by Secretary of State Karen Handel. Both candidates are Republicans, as was Norwood. Because Whitehead's margin of defeat was less than 1 percent, he could have asked for a recount under Georgia law. But in a statement released Tuesday, he said dragging out the election for a recount "is unjustifiable in light of the time we have gone without a vote in Congress." (Posted 9:47 p.m.) Colorado fires professor who compared 9/11 victims to Nazis (CNN) -- The University of Colorado's Board of Regents on Tuesday fired a professor who compared some victims of the al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center to Nazis, citing "deliberate and repeated research misconduct." Ward Churchill raised hackles with a 2002 essay that argued the Sept.
Advances in screening and markers improve early detection of ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 23, 2007) -- Although colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, when detected early, it has one of the highest cure rates. For this reason, innovative and improved methods to screen for and detect this disease are essential. Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week 2007 (DDW) demonstrates the breadth of technological and research advances that are helping to decrease both the number of deaths and the number of new cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in the United States. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. A New Benchmark in the Colorectal Neoplasm Miss Rate During Colonoscopy: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Wide Angle View (170 degrees) Colonoscopy Comparing Narrow Band Imaging and White Light (Abstract #821) Although the colonoscopy is considered the most effective means to detect precursors of colon cancer, the overall reported rate of missing colorectal tumors is 24 percent, as reported in 1997.
BBC may axe channels in cost-cutting drive, says chairman
Cost-cutting: BBC may have to axe channels Most popular stories 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Email newsletter Headlines The BBC may close entire channels or services as part of a major restructuring, the chairman of its trust has said. Sir Michael Lyons said the corporation needs to reallocate funds as part of a £2billion cost-cutting exercise - and one way could be to axe... .
Infocrossing Introduces Q/Advantage Medicare Prescription Drug ...
The Q/Advantage product supports the administration of Medicare Advantage and Part D Plans. Q/Advantage leverages the rules-based, table-driven architecture of Infocrossing's Q/Care health plan and payer management solution to split off specific functionality into a single integrated customized offering that addresses pharmacy benefit management. Infocrossing offers Q/Advantage as either a standalone service or as an integrated solution that complements its Q/Care claims management services. The seven Q/Advantage modules include: Eligibility and Enrollment Services Made Simple--Infocrossing provides eligibility and enrollment services under an agreement with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Under the agreement, CMS transmits and extracts from the Medicare Beneficiary Database to Infocrossing Healthcare Services on a bi-weekly basis.
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