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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is back. Dan Brown’s latest thriller, the Dante-inspired “Inferno,” puts Langdon in a hospital bed with no memory of how he wound up there. Still, the clever professor is the only one who can figure out the doomsday puzzle, the first macabre piece of which is sewn into his bloody tweed jacket.
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New York Water Rangers, a coalition of 10 environmental groups, is calling on state Senator Tom Libous to recuse himself from fracking deliberations after his ties to a real estate company with a natural-gas lease were disclosed.
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Senator Tom Libous, a champion of fracking in the New York Legislature, is blocking a bill that would delay drilling for natural gas for at least two more years. Passage of the measure would harm the prospects of a real-estate company founded by Libous’s wife and run by a business partner and campaign donor.
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Intuitive Surgical Inc. didn’t cut corners in a training program for surgeons to use its robots and met all the objectives submitted to federal regulators, a witness testified in a wrongful death case against the company.
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Witnesses for Intuitive Surgical Inc. testified that heart disease, not a failed robotic procedure, killed a patient whose widow is suing the company over claims that overly aggressive marketing caused surgical errors.
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A former Intuitive Surgical Inc. sales representative testified that two-thirds of his salary was based on how many robotic surgeries were completed in his geographic territory.
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The stress and complications from a lengthy prostate operation assisted by an Intuitive Surgical Inc. robot hastened a patient’s death from heart disease, a doctor testified.
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Intuitive Surgical Inc. targeted surgeons with “basic or limited” skills in minimally invasive procedures to increase sales of its robotic surgical system, a company marketing executive told a jury.
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A lawyer for Intuitive Surgical Inc. told jurors that a doctor who used the company’s robot in surgery on a morbidly obese patient who later died ignored warnings that the operation shouldn’t be performed.
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Intuitive Surgical Inc., the embattled maker of robot surgery devices, said first-quarter profit rose 32 percent on greater use of its da Vinci system.
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