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10. Other Income and Expenses | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Other Income and Other Expense Disclosure | 10. OTHER INCOME AND EXPENSE, NET Other (income) expense, net includes the following components (in millions):
|  | Year Ended December 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
Interest and investment income |  | $ | (11.4 | ) |  | $ | (8.2 | ) |  | $ | (5.2 | )
Net realized gains on investments |  | (8.7 | ) |  | (0.7 | ) |  | (0.6 | )
Other-than-temporary impairment losses on investments |  | 1.0 |  |  | 2.1 |  |  | 0.2 |
(Gains) losses on sale of property, plant and equipment |  | (3.8 | ) |  | 0.2 |  |  | 0.5 |
Miscellaneous other expense (income) items, net |  | 1.0 |  |  | (1.0 | ) |  | 1.2 |
Other (income) expense, net |  | $ | (21.9 | ) |  | $ | (7.6 | ) |  | $ | (3.9 | )
Other-than-temporary impairment losses on investments were recorded in 2012, 2011 and 2010 on certain of our available-for-sale investments in light of the continuing declines in their market prices at that time, primarily associated with our investment in a sovereign nation with large deficits and our decision to sell holdings in a particular adviser account. In December 2012, we sold a building for $6.4 million in our Clinical Diagnostics segment that was associated with a 1999 acquisition. We recognized a gain on the sale of $4.3 million and a portion of goodwill recorded in a 1999 acquisition was written off of $1.0 million.

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