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...What we hope to achieve is working with the pharmaceuticals industry to provide them with novel targets, gene products, which we feel are ripe for the development of a novel therapeutic, whether it be a small molecule or a protein therapeutic," says Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for pharmaceuticals at Millennium...
...sixth year of a Democratic presidency ought to be a ripe hunting ground for G.O.P. candidates. The party holding the White House almost always gets trounced in midterm elections, on account of a thinning agenda and a sense that the best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing...
Harvard, like Holyfield, is underrated and unafraid, and faces a highly touted opponent ripe for a fall tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Ohiri Field...
...think of no other place he would rather be. "I can't even remember when I first knew I wanted to make films," says Ross, taking another moment to think back. "Maybe when I was eight or nine, I realized that's what I wanted." Now, at the ripe old age of 22, Ross' love for film is greater than ever, and manifests in a deep concern, not just for making great films, but also for coming to terms with the essence of the medium. Ross worries that he cannot, in all honesty, trust a movie-going public that worships...
...loss, and the FBI is investigating. So far, investigators don't know if anything classified was lost. Meanwhile, security in Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT'S suite was tightened after TIME reported two weeks ago that sensitive documents had been lifted from there. Officials say that State is ripe for "a major overhaul" of its document-protection system. State says its system is comparable to that of other agencies; still, it assembled 700 managers last week to insist upon greater discipline...