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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Cities with the best economies in America
It turns out ?Don?t Mess With Texas,? is more than just a slogan. At least judging by the state?s ability to rebound from the Great Recession, and its dominance over the rankings in a new report highlighting the best-performing U.S. cities.
San Antonio heads up the Milken Institute?s 2011 Best-Performing Cities index, but is just one of four Texas cities in the top five and nine of the 25 best in the country. The Lone Star State grades out well in job creation, according to the report, which found that Texas employers were responsible for one of every five U.S. jobs created from June 2010 to June 2011.
Ross DeVol, the Milken Institute?s chief research officer, leads the team that compiles the index and said that a number of factors lie behind Texas? success, some unique to the region and others that cities elsewhere in the U.S. can try to emulate.
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For one thing, many Texas metro areas are benefiting from the military?s Base Realignment and Consolidation process, which has brought more families near the state?s armed forces facilities, from San Antonio?s Lackland Air Force Base to Killeen?s Fort Hood. Those families need housing, health care and other services, DeVol points out.
Texas is also seeing a surge in IT equipment and software employment. DeVol highlights Apple?s expansion in Austin, where the company is said to be getting chips for its iPad, as well as significant presences from the likes of AT&T, IBM and Advanced Micro Devices.
?Given the depth of the Great Recession,? DeVol says, ?businesses have become more focused on cost.? Texas, which has no state income tax, is very understanding of ?the need for companies to be competitive,? he adds, citing streamlined processes that allow employers to get new facilities up and running faster and aggressive recruiting of out-of-state businesses to cities where they can hire qualified workers for less than in New York, California, Massachusetts or many other states.
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The cost issue is also a big factor in Utah, the only state other than Texas to put more than one metro area among the 25 best performers. Provo touts the educated workforce stemming from Brigham Young University, while Salt Lake City was a big gainer in a year when its mining presence was greeted with big demand for gold and silver. Both, along with Ogden and Logan (Utah-Idaho), which topped the Milken Institute?s list of best-performing small cities, offer low-cost destinations for employers focused on keeping expenses in line.
Utah also benefits by having plenty of room for development, an issue that limits the potential for growth in some larger metro areas like the one around New York. While DeVol points out that the NYC area was hurt by the loss of financial services jobs in 2011 ? a trend that has continued with cuts announced at Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others this fall ? he also notes that many bigger metro areas did not fall off as much as others during the Great Recession.
While that means those economies proved more resilient to the downturn, it also means they are not springing back off a depressed base. To wit, none of the 10 largest metros cracked the top 10 Best-Performing Cities for the first time since 2008.
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In terms of movers, Merced, Calif. saw the biggest gain from a year ago, rising 105 spots to 63rd, thanks to a correction in one of the housing markets hit hardest by the bubble?s collapse. Among decliners, BP?s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico happened in 2010, but the decreased drilling activity in the Gulf persists and continues to hamper drilling-service centers like Lafayette, La., which dropped 82 places to 93rd.
The Milken Institute?s index ranks cities based on growth in jobs, wages and salaries, and technology output. It weighs those factors over a five-year span to account for varying business cycles and the latest year?s performance, and then adds 12-month job growth performance to account for recent momentum.
Cities in Texas measure strongly across all those categories, and its ?assertive recruiting? of out-of-state businesses adds to the state?s ?secret sauce,? but DeVol acknowledges that it also has another big chip in its favor: the state happens to be sitting on a gigantic pile of natural resources. While the Milken Institute touts the other sectors bolstering Texas economies, increased oil and gas exploration, in large part thanks to new drilling techniques, remains a crucial source of fuel for the state?s growth engine.
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Avastin may help slow ovarian cancer tumors
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Studies show Avastin may help some with ovarian cancer, but doesn't extend life expectancy.
New studies suggest that the drug?Avastin, when treating women with ovarian cancer, can slow tumor growth when added to chemotherapy.
But- it's not clear whether the drug may improve life expectancy.
The news comes less than a week after officials in Europe approved Avastin for treating advanced ovarian cancer.
It has not yet been approved by the?Food and Drug Administration?to treat ovarian cancer in the U-S.
"I have no doubt that Avastin is a very powerful drug for some patients," said Dr. Gabriel Hortobagyi, chair of MD Anderson Cancer Center department of breast medical oncology, according?The Los Angeles Times. "The problem with Avastin is we don?t have a biomarker to help us identify the sub-group."
Results of the studies are in?the New England Journal of Medicine.
Last month, the F-D-A withdrew approval of Avastin for breast cancer because it did not extend life and can have serious side effects.
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Turkish air strike kills 35 in north Iraq: officials (Reuters)
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) ? Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against suspected Kurdish militants in northern Iraq near the Turkish border overnight, the military said on Thursday, but local officials said the attack killed 35 smugglers who were mistaken for guerrillas.
The Turkish military confirmed it had launched the strike after unmanned drones spotted suspected rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), but said there were no civilians in the area and it was investigating the incident.
"We have 30 corpses, all of them are burned. The state knew that these people were smuggling in the region. This kind of incident is unacceptable. They were hit from the air," said Fehmi Yaman, mayor of Uludere in Sirnak province.
The pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) said in a statement that 35 people had been killed and party leaders were heading for the area. Joint chairman Selahattin Demirtas said the party announced a three-day period of mourning.
"It is clear there was a massacre. They will try to cover it up ... We will not allow them to cover it up," Turkish media reported Demirtas as saying. The BDP said it would hold demonstrations in Istanbul and elsewhere to protest the deaths.
The Turkish military said it had learnt that the PKK had sent many militants to the Sinat-Haftanin area, where the strikes occurred in northern Iraq, to retaliate after recent militant losses in clashes.
Military units were warned that PKK groups there were planning attacks on security force border posts in southeast Turkey, prompting the military to increase border surveillance.
"It was established from unmanned aerial vehicle images that a group was within Iraq heading towards our border," it said.
"Given that the area in which the group was spotted is often used by terrorists and that it was moving towards our border at night, it was deemed necessary for our air force planes to attack and they struck the target at 2137-2224 (1937-2024 GMT)," it said.
"The place where the incident occurred is the Sinat-Haftanin area in northern Iraq where there is no civilian settlement and where the main camps of the separatist terrorist group are located," it said.
"An administrative and legal investigation and procedures regarding the incident are continuing," it added.
The Turkish government, which has been battling the PKK since the group took up arms in 1984 to fight for an ethnic Kurdish homeland, was not immediately available for comment.
The governor of Sirnak province, Vahdettin Ozkan, told the state-run Anatolian news agency that more than 20 people had died and the incident was being investigated.
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Smuggling is an important source of income for locals in provinces along the Iraqi border, with many villagers involved in bringing fuel, cigarettes and other goods from Iraqi villages on the other side of the border.
PKK militants also cross the border in these areas.
"There were rumors that the PKK would cross through this region. Images were recorded of a crowd crossing last night, hence an operation was carried out," a Turkish security official said.
"We could not have known whether these people were (PKK) group members or smugglers," he said.
Television images showed a line of corpses covered by blankets on a barren hillside, with a crowd of people gathered around, some with their head in their hands and crying.
Donkeys carried corpses down the hillside to be loaded into vehicles to be taken to hospital.
Security sources said those killed were carrying canisters of diesel on mules and their bodies were found on the Iraqi side of the border.
They said those killed were from Uludere on the Turkish side of the border on what was a regular smuggling route.
The Firat news agency, which has close ties to the PKK, said that 17 people were still believed to be missing. It said those killed were aged around 17-20.
In northern Iraq, PKK spokesman Ahmet Deniz condemned the strike and said F-16 jets had bombed a group of around 50 people taking goods across the border and that 19 people were missing.
The PKK, regarded as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, launches attacks on Turkish forces in southeastern Turkey from hideouts inside the remote Iraqi mountains.
In a statement before the latest incident, the National Security Council said after a regular meeting on Wednesday that recent security forces operations had dealt a major blow against the PKK and the military would continue to fight decisively against the militants.
Turkey and Iran have often skirmished with rebels in the region and Turkish leaders vowed revenge in October with air and ground strikes after the PKK killed 24 Turkish soldiers in raids on military outposts in southeastern Turkey.
It was one of the deadliest attacks since the PKK took up arms in 1984 in a conflict in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
(Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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