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...library, their mother Trish became a tougher customer. She shopped around, sifting through test-score data on the Internet and touring a dozen charter schools, including many that she says made her think, "I wouldn't put my dog here." Her children are now prospering at the Noah Webster Basic School, a charter that attracts students who work above their grade level. Samantha and her second-grade friends spout square roots for fun. Fifth-grader Buzz just wrote a paper on Abraham Lincoln's photographer...
...hold back a revised sanctions program they had hoped to have in place when the current oil-for-food program expires on June 4. Instead, the Security Council voted Thursday to simply extend the existing sanctions package and the oil-for-food program that allows Iraq to purchase its basic food and medical needs...
Managers must make sure that every employee understands the basic building blocks of how his or her business works. Here's an example. Last summer Bruce Nelson took over as CEO of Office Depot, the world's largest seller of office supplies. In analyzing the fundamentals, he quickly discovered that gross margin and inventory velocity were slipping. Not good...
...That dream comes at a price. Staying on Glivec, for example, may end up costing patients like Victoria Reiter as much as $2,400 every month?nearly $30,000 a year?for the rest of her newly prolonged life. While the National Cancer Institute funds basic research into cancer biology, the bulk of drug development is done by for-profit pharmaceutical firms. These companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market?partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required...
That dream comes at a price. Staying on Gleevec, for example, may end up costing patients like Victoria Reiter as much as $2,400 every month--nearly $30,000 a year--for the rest of her newly prolonged life. While the National Cancer Institute funds basic research into cancer biology, the bulk of drug development is done by for-profit pharmaceutical firms. These companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market--partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required...