1.  Baxter International is expected to announce that it has signed a novel surgical supplies contract with the Duke University Medical Center that could become a nationwide model.

2.  He said investigators were looking at whether surgical supplies, many of which come prepackaged, were contaminated.

3.  Shares in the Cleveland, Ohio-based surgical supply company were halted while the panel voted.

4.  They are wholesale calendar salesmen, tour bus drivers, nut vendors and surgical supply retailers, who live in small apartments with stained and peeling walls.

5.  Why a pizzeria next to a surgical supply store?

6.  Medicine, surgical supplies, splints and other equipment were being sent immediately to Anjouan where troops intervened on Tuesday, the French Foreign Ministry said.

7.  Red Cross spokesman Darcy Christen said the neutral Swiss agency was beefing up surgical supplies in Tajikistan and Pakistan.

8.  The aircraft is to leave Belgrade Thursday for Banja Luka in northwest Bosnia with food and surgical supplies for refugees there.