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...Universities provide the basic science on which we build to make medical products,” he continued. “What we can do is integrate these discoveries into projects and bring them all the way to the patients...
...GENE HUNTERS The much hyped biotech industry is finally starting to deliver on its promise, with more small companies shifting from basic research to drug development. That means more jobs, from lab work to medical writing, are in the pipeline as well. Genentech, based in South San Francisco, Calif., is increasing its head count each year by 297, or about 6% annually, hiring everyone from Ph.D.s to community-college grads who can work in manufacturing. Just in the budding field of bioinformatics, in which specialists can make more than $100,000 a year using computers to plow through reams...
...bathroom completely unassisted, will always be the center of our family. He never earned that role; his needs dictated it. I wasn't consciously resentful of this as a child. There was no more reason to be angry about this than there was about the rigid laws of basic arithmetic...
PILGRIM: The kind of problems we're talking about with Enron--at large companies--is a fairly recent development. But routine efforts to stretch the financial truth, particularly among small companies, have been going on for a long time. It gets down to basic honesty and integrity. Some managements have a strong sense of that, and others don't. Combine that with a flexible moral framework with stock options, and over a period of time the focus has increasingly shifted to how rich can you get, how fast? The ploy is to keep expectations rising. But at some point...
...President Bush's hands are tied, the prospects for peace-by-conference are negligible in the face of the chasm between the basic positions of the current Israeli leadership and the moderate consensus in the Arab world. The interventions of the past couple of weeks mark a resumption of active U.S. stewardship of the peace effort, but the requirements of that role - and the attendant political risks - can only grow. For if the Arab world comes to believe that the objective of the current initiatives is simply to keep the two sides talking while the U.S. goes to war with...