Word: biotechs
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...Franken Beer Ahead of E.U. rules requiring the labeling of GM foods from April, a Swedish brewer is testing consumers' stomachs for biotech produce with a lager brewed with GM corn from Germany...
...most sympathetic jury. In preparation for a Jan. 20 showdown with federal prosecutors in New York City, her legal team spent last week sifting through hundreds of 35-page juror questionnaires that probed such matters as whether people had ever purchased a Martha Stewart product or heard of the biotech firm ImClone. The fate of the domestic diva, who faces charges stemming from her sale of 3,928 ImClone shares shortly before the stock price plummeted in 2001, hinges on whether the jury sees her as a cover-up artist or as a victim of overzealous prosecutors. The good news...
...Stonyfield Farm, whose no-synthetic-hormone labels also carry language noting the FDA's approval of RBST. But Stanley Bennett, whose family built Oakhurst from a two-horse outfit in 1921 into an $85 million modern processor, says he won't be "bullied" by the $4.7 billion biotech behemoth. "We are in the business of marketing milk," he says, "not Monsanto's drugs...
...HAVE A FOCUS, TRY A NICHE SITE "There's a greater connection," says Josh Maybar, who hires for the Trust for Public Land and advertises openings on Idealist.org a site that caters to nonprofits. Jobhunt.org lists many niche sites, from Medzilla.com (for biotech and health-care workers) to Careers.findlaw.com (for lawyers). America's Job Bank, at ajb.org has links to state government job banks...
...quarterly decrease since the industry peaked in the first quarter of 2000, when $28.6 billion was invested. "It was an unhealthy level of investment in 1999 and 2000," says the National Venture Capital Association's Jeanne Metzger. "Now we've leveled off comfortably, at about $4 billion a quarter." Biotech is the main beneficiary, having received $873 million in the third quarter, unseating software and reaching the top for the first time in seven years. New money has been slow to flow into venture-capital firms, but that shouldn't hurt young companies hungry for funding. The venture capitals didn...