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Merck buying Schering-Plough in a $41.1B deal
TRENTON, N.J. - Merck & Co. is buying Schering-Plough Corp. for $41.1 billion in a deal that gives Merck key new businesses, access to a promising pipeline of new products and the chance to further cut costs, including eliminating about 16,000 jobs. Dow ends up almost 900, but no one is exhaling
Wall Street's best day in two weeks -- and one of its best ever -- was a joyless rally. Even a manic, final-hour stampede of buying that sent the Dow Jones industrials soaring almost 900 points did nothing to dispel the feeling that the market could turn on investors in an instant. AIDS pioneers and cancer researcher win Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday.
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