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Almost exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck and other dazzling minds of the era gathered at the Solvay Library in Brussels for a major physics conference. Meeting in the same neo-classical library on Thursday to find an urgent solution to Greece's debt crisis and save the imperiled euro, European Union leaders would probably have relished the chance to connect with those bygone eggheads for inspiration. But no matter - their decision, as it turns out, was a no-brainer. In an emphatic message to the speculators around the world who are betting billions...
Once the Wall fell, those chemical factories were among the first casualties of reunification. Investors such as Dow, Dell, French oil giant Total and Belgian chemical and pharmaceutical firm Solvay moved in, enticed in large part by the subsidies Germany was offering to companies willing to take the obsolete mammoths off its hands. But welcome as the newcomers were, they quickly shuttered the old plants and hired only a fraction of the workers - about 20% of those who had previously toiled at Buna and Leuna. Unemployment soared as high as 30%. People started to leave Halle to find work elsewhere...
...thirds of the project's overall budget - from a trio of high-profile sponsors: Swiss watchmaker Omega, part of the Swatch Group, which brings expertise in both miniaturization and efficient energy use; Deutsche Bank, which is keen to green its investment portfolio; and Belgian chemical and materials group Solvay, which backed the exploits of Piccard's grand-father, Auguste, when he co-piloted a balloon beyond the stratospheric altitude...
Such problems appeared in only "a small portion of the patients in our clinical trials," says Dr. Hjalmar Lagast, a vice president for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, which makes Marinol. He notes that the drug comes in three strengths, allowing doctors to pick the right dose. By the early '90s, at the height of the U.S. aids epidemic, many patients so preferred marijuana to Marinol that they would use the street drug regardless of legality or safety. Abrams and a few others began pushing the government to permit new studies of marijuana to find out what these patients were doing to themselves...
Prozac is another drug that targets a particular neurotransmitter, plugging up brain chemicals that absorb the mood elevator called serotonin. Competing ssris (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), as they're called, include Lilly's duloxetine and Solvay Pharmaceuticals' fluvoxamine. Both drugs affect the same biochemical pathways, only with greater precision and fewer side effects. But better ssris aren't the only new approach. Sanofi-Synthelabo is looking into the potential of a so-called mao (monoamine oxidase) inhibitor called befloxatone. Monoamine oxidase is another serotonin-disrupting enzyme, so anything that inhibits it should make more of the mood-elevating chemical available...