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* Alberto-Culver Co., the world’s No. 1 seller of hair products to salons, said it bought beauty products distributor CosmoProf of Chatsworth to expand into Los Angeles and Hawaii. Terms weren’t disclosed.

* SuperGen Inc., the Dublin, Calif.-based maker of the Nipent leukemia drug, said it withdrew a U.S. application to sell a pancreatic cancer medicine because regulators indicated that they would reject it.