The Carter Group LLC Expands Operations into International Market.
MOBILE, Ala., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carter Group continues its 15 years of growth by opening an international office. To lead this initiative will be international business executive Iain Martindale. Over the last two decades Martindale led the strategic International HR initiatives for Teradyne Inc., a...

Zimmer bolsters portfolio with Abbott spine purchase.
Warsaw, IN-based Zimmer Holdings, Inc. will acquire Abbott's spine business for approximately $360 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. The boards of directors for both companies approved the transaction. Abbott Spine had 2007 revenues of $109 million. Zimmer Spine's...

Church marks feast day of St. Paulinus of Nola.
Masses and novenas will be held in his honor in several Catholic churches all over the world. In Nola, Italy where he served as bishop from the year 409 up to the time of his death in 431, the "La Festa dei Gigli" (Feast of the Lilies)...

Three groups more likely to self-medicate.
NEW ORLEANS -- Men, singles, and those aged 30 years and younger are more likely than other groups in the general population to use psychoactive substances to cope with psychiatric symptoms, a large population-based study conducted in France suggests. Men in the study were particularly likely to...

French appeals court reverses judgment for damages awarded against French railway system for transporting family toward death camps.
European Green Party lawmaker Alain Lipietz, his sister, Helene, and other family members sued on behalf of four of their relatives taken in railway cattle cars to a Nazi transit camp at Drancy near Paris in May 1944. Drancy was a transfer point for Jews...

Lothar Hempel: Magasin--Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
IN 1996 Nicolas Bourriaud included Lothar Hempel in "Traffic" at CAPC in Bordeaux, France, placing the German artist alongside numerous others of his generation such as Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Since then, Hempel's star has perhaps not burned as brightly as these other artists', but this...

Books received.
(April-June 2002) ABIFARES, HUDA SMITHSHUIJZEN. Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive Sourcebook. London: Saqi Books, 2001. 263 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0863563473). ACKERMAN, JAMES S. Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 326 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00...

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf.
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. By William C. Davis. (New York and other cities: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Pp. xiv, 706. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-15-603259-7; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-15-100403-X.) The study of piracy is an important subdiscipline of maritime history and...

Complications relatively rare with dermatologic surgeries.
PARIS -- Despite the relatively high number of procedures dermatologists perform, the incidence of complications in dermatologic surgery is relatively low, a new study suggests. A prospective study of 3,788 consecutive surgical dermatologic procedures performed over a 3-month period found 263 complications in 213 (5.6%) patients treated...

2004 BAR EXAMINATION PASSERS.
ABABA, Marilou I.ABAD, Maurice C.ABADIA, James M.ABANTE, JR., Eduardo R.ABARQUEZ, Anthony Ben C.ABARQUEZ, Ronald Allan C.ABAS, Sheriff M.ABAT, Arthur E.ABAYON, III, Crispulo B.ABDURASAD, Jinmar H.ABEL, Queenie V.ABELEDA, II, Tirso Augustus L.ABELGOS-ESPERA, Ruby Remedios V.ABELLA, Hannah B.ABELLAR, Stella Marie L.ABESAMES, Marleen Joyce P.ABILLADA, JR., Romeo K.ABITRIA, Rommel A.ABLAY, Edgardo C.ABOGADO,...