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...film does highlight the government's response to Guerin's murder: a zero-tolerance policy that made it easier to investigate suspected criminals and reduced the overall crime rate in Ireland by 12%. What it leaves out is that despite the crackdown, violent crime in Ireland has risen sharply. This omission aggravates those who work close to the statistics. "You get the impression from the film that organized crime in Ireland has been closed down," says Paul Williams, a reporter with the Sunday World who was Guerin's main rival. "But you can see from the amount of dead bodies...
...genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange's biotech index rose 563% while the nasdaq rose 238%. Both plunged in the next two years. Now biotech is hot again. Since the stock market started to find its footing last July, U.S. biotech shares have risen 57%. Another bubble? Not necessarily. Many of the companies have marched steadily closer to bringing products to market. MedImmune's inhalable flu preventive FluMist was approved in mid-June. In May, Genentech's colon-cancer drug Avastin stunned scientists with its effectiveness in trials and is widely expected...
...biotech is hot again. Since the stock market started to find its footing last July, biotech shares have risen 57%. Another bubble? Not necessarily. Many of the companies have marched steadily closer to bringing products to market. MedImmune's inhalable flu preventive FluMist was approved two weeks ago. In May, Genentech's colon-cancer drug Avastin stunned scientists with its effectiveness in trials and is widely expected to be approved soon. Dozens of other products are in the works. "We're starting to see the fruits of biotech research," says Kenneth Carter, CEO of Avalon Pharmaceuticals, which is working...
...they were supplemented with something more maneuverable. The approach was called tentmaking, after the Apostle Paul, who supported himself at that trade while spreading word of the risen Christ through the Mediterranean. Like Paul, the new missionaries did not hang up an evangelist's shingle. They took day jobs--often in aid and development or other areas in which the host country lacked expertise--and preached unofficially. The possibilities are endless--evangelical websites feature references to mechanical engineering in "a large Arab city," computer sales in "an Islamic country" and business teaching in Kyrgyzstan--and missionary-recruitment seminars can sound...
Over the past decade, remittances of wages from migrant workers to their native countries have risen 44%, to an estimated $138 billion last year, and they are projected to grow an additional 28% over the next three years. According to the Nilson Report, which tracks payment services, Western Union controls nearly 80% of the electronic money-transfer market in the U.S., the world's biggest sender of remittances, which helped it pick up a nicely rounded $1 billion in profit last year from $3.2 billion in revenue. But several years of 30% profit margins have drawn complaints of price gouging...