Corporate Travel Slows

AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR with Iraq, Newark, N.J.-based Prudential Financial issued a statement to all of its employees that “all non-critical international travel be delayed, if possible.” On April 8, Prudential's employees received another urgent statement, this time from K. Andrew Crighton, MD, chief medical officer at the company. It begins, “Based on the World Health Organization's recent warning regarding the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the People's