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High-tech Mexico offices adapt to flu threat

Apr. 29, 2009
While there have been no reports so far of illnesses affecting their employees, Bay Area companies doing business in Mexico are by no means immune from the swine flu epidemic that has hit that country the hardest. According to a spot check on Wednesday:...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch