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Hewlett-Packard Chairman Steps Down, Citing Health

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Hewlett-Packard Chairman Steps Down, Citing Health

New York (AFP) — U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday its non-executive chairman Ralph Whitworth was stepping down for health reasons, effective Wednesday.

A statement said the HP board of directors will discuss appointing a new chairman at its next board meeting.

Whitworth, who was appointed chairman on an interim basis in April 2013, has been a member of the HP board of directors since 2011.

Chief executive Meg Whitman said Whitworth “has been a wonderful contributor to our efforts to turn HP around.”

HP is undergoing a massive reorganization to cope with the move away from traditional personal computers to mobile devices.

The California company said in May it was cutting an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs on top of 34,000 reductions planned under a program begun in 2012.

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Do You Have Super Ager Potential?New Quiz Shows How Well You Are Aging

Do You Have Super Ager Potential?New Quiz Shows How Well You Are Aging

When someone says that age “is just a number,” they’re talking about a fact of life that everyone knows: As some people get older, they hold onto a youthful vitality and suffer less from age-related illness, while others feel and show the toll of advancing years.

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The GOP Is Now The Party Of Putin

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President Vladimir Putin, left, and former President Donald Trump

"Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it's infected a good chunk of my party's base." That acknowledgement from Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was echoed a few days later by Ohio Rep. Michael Turner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. "To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle."

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