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...middle, until recently, was the drug's producer, France's Roussel Uclaf. Its corporate parent, Germany's huge Hoechst chemical company, feared a pro-life boycott of its American products if it allowed RU 486 to be marketed in the U.S. And Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
...almost like a parent to the faculty," says Green. "He knows everybody personally. He knows everything about their lives...
...Harvard parent and W.E.B. DuBois Institute lecturer in 1986, Edelman knows the College intimately. Hunt says. "That will enable her to speak directly to the lives of the students here potentially making this one of the finest Class Day speeches ever," he says...
...move that could bring two of the country's most celebrated and well- regarded newspapers under one corporate roof, the parent company of the New York Times in January entered serious discussions to buy the Boston Globe. Takeover rumors have swirled around the Globe in years and months past; now a deal seems imminent, for a price of about $1 billion. Says a top staff writer: "If the Globe goes, I would certainly want it to go to a respectable news organization, which the Times of course...
Seeking a cure, researchers have now focused on so-called stem cells -- long-lasting cells that continually give rise to fresh blood cells. If ADA genes could be inserted into the parent stem cells, the scientists reasoned, the genes would be passed on to all newly formed immune cells, including T cells, and the patient would be ensured a permanent supply of the enzyme. But stem cells are rare, and most of them reside in the bone marrow...