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An Olympus vice president in Pennsylvania in January 2013, knowing about the cases in Europe, and also knowing that Olympus was investigating a similar case in a Pittsburgh hospital, asked in an email, "Should [we] also be communicating to our users the information that [Olympus Europe] is communicating to their European users?" Olympus's chief manager for market quality administration in Tokyo in a Feb. 6, 2013, email, replied to that query. "Although it is not need[ed] to communicate to all the users actively, you should communicate with the user who has asked a question" wrote the manager, Susumu Nishina, according to the email linked in the L.A. Times/Kaiser story. Nishina's email continued,

Strategist Tom Lee is known for perennially serving as one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street, but when asked about the month ahead, he's striking a markedly cautious tone. "August scares us," the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors said Monday on CNBC's " Trading Nation ." He pointed to two troubling stats in particular.

Friends, there may be reason to be a bit worried - it seems that bed bugs have a few favorite colors, which means your sheets may be attracting the tiny monsters right to your bed. A study in Journal of Medical Entomology took a look at the favorite colors of bed bugs - because, yes, even they have favorite colors - and found that the horrifying bugs are actually attracted to some colors over others. If your sheets are red or black, you may want to switch over to something a little lighter, like yellow, white, or green.

A Chinese container ship has hit a wall of the recently-widened Panama Canal, amid concerns that it has less space for manoeuvres and could be unsafe. It is the third accident of this kind since the multi-million dollar expansion opened a month ago. Workers groups say the new locks are too small for safe operations now that the canal can take ships three times larger than before. The Panama Canal authority says it is investigating the incidents. The Xin Fei Zhou, owned by China Shipping Container Lines, suffered a large gash in its hull and is now undergoing repairs. The new locks are designed for ships to use tugboats to guide them through the canal. In the old canal locomotives (known as "mules")

Philadelphia TV meteorologist John Bolaris had an annual ritual after a long winter forecasting ice and snow: a trip to sunny Miami Beach to relax and recharge. But his 2010 trip would cost far more than airfare, hotel, and incidentals. Bolaris would be stripped of tens of thousands of dollars-and quite possibly his entire career-after falling victim to a surprisingly common scam that targets a man's ego and his wallet. "They exceeded the greed limit, whatever there is on a greed limit, you know," Bolaris tells American Greed. The scam, detailed in this week's episode of American Greed, employs beautiful and exotic "bar girls," also known as "B-girls," to con unsuspecting male travelers into