Year: 2016

Monsanto Co , the world's largest seed company, turned down Bayer AG&039;s $62 billion acquisition bid as "incomplete and financially inadequate" on Tuesday, but said it was open to engage further in negotiations. Monsanto&039;s decision, first reported earlier on Tuesday by Reuters, puts pressure on Bayer to decide whether to raise its bid, even as the company faces criticism from some shareholders that its $122-per-share cash offer is already too high. The other options are to walk away, or mount a hostile bid.

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PARIS—Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard says she has overcome an eating disorder brought on by “a lot of pressure” and the added …
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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has declared a 60-day emergency in a remote part of the Amazon to curb high levels of mercury poisoning from rampant illegal gold mining, the country's environment minister said on Monday. A growing number of studies show that residents of the Madre de Dios region near Peru&039;s southeastern border with Brazil have dangerous levels of mercury in their bodies, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said in announcing the move. Tens of thousands of illegal miners who dredge for gold in the rivers and wetlands of Madre de Dios use mercury to separate ore from rock, often handling the neurotoxin with their bare hands and inhaling its fumes when it is burned off.

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As the Mayo Clinic put it, “To lose more weight, you need to either increase your physical activity or decrease the calories you eat. Using the same …
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Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme in isolated rural areas. The scheme has already helped slash infant and maternal mortality rates. Marceline Mwubahamana, three months pregnant at 31, doesn't even have to leave home to have her details logged into a national database at the health ministry.

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The diet has its critics, who point to the program's all-or- nothing philosophy as too extreme. Whole30 ranked last among 38 popular diets evaluated by …
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