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Sanofi-Aventis and liver risks of its drug Ketek. And the questionable practices of Sanofi in the study assessing the liver risk that the FDA draws attention to in its letter to Sanofi-Aventis.

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Would hedge funds that short Lehman's stock want to create an environment of perceptions of uncertainty around Lehman. ts quite possible. Lehman's CEO Fuld flew back from India over the weekend and went on the offensive to dispel perceptions of weakness. According to this report Bear Stearns had $33 billion in total liquidity compared to $169 billion for lehmans which compares with $169 billion for Goldman Sachs. Of this Lehman has $35 billion in cash and liquid assets and $160 billion in unencumbered assets like loans and securities backed by commercial mortgages that it use as collateral to borrow more. Lehman has the highest percentage of liquidity at 25% of total assets compared to other major brokers according to Buckingham Research Associates the source for these numbers. Its here that the Fed's recent decision to lend to the largest investment firms comes into play. As Mr Fuld stated the Fed's decision to create a lending facility for these primary dealers like Lehmanand permit a broad range of investment grade securities o serve as collateral improves the liquidity picture and in his view takes the liquidity issue for the entire industry off the table. Those looking at the downside point to the Level 3 assets of no observable value of $42 billion and the $37 billion in residential mortgages in Lehman Brothers. ...

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Patrick Gelsinger who is general manager of Intel's deigital enterprse group and its chief technology officer sees new chip technology evolving from today's core circuitry of one to four microprocessors to many core and tens to hundreds of electronic brains. Medical images that take hours to process will be instantly available and instantly available speeding diagnoses. It will require development of newprogramming languages, tools and techniques. Computer availability will be ubiquitous , and it will be more intuitive and interactive. Intel architecture will move towards the cell phone market. And moving to the next level 450 millimeter wafers from today's 300 millimeter wafers will cut the cost of producing each chip by 40%.