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...founded as a partnership between Venter and Haseltine to exploit the research coming out of TIGR, but the two parted ways in 1997. The company today holds U.S. patents on 159 genes and has four genomic compounds in clinical trials. These include a drug that curbs the toxic effects of chemotherapy and a drug that promotes wound healing...
...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
...classmates spend at Hogwarts. And ominous news on this front emerged late in the year: Rowling's agent, Christopher Little, announced that there would be no new Harry Potter novel before 2002. (Imagine here a worldwide gnashing of teeth--baby, permanent and false.) But there will be two brief new, pseudonymous Rowling books coming this winter, based on titles in the Hogwarts library: Quidditch Through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander. Rowling will give the net proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief U.K., a charity helping children...
Nobody knows. And that put the FTC in the ungainly position of regulating the future. The FTC's solution was to ensure that the pipes, just like federal highways, were open to everyone, making "open access" to the two companies' cable and Internet services the price of approval. Case and Levin agreed to allow at least three other Internet service providers access to Time Warner cable lines and decreed that AOL would continue to invest in slower, phone-based DSL service...
...bullish, competitors so fearful and regulators so confused, it's that even now very few people understand the future scope or reach of a company as big and diverse as AOL Time Warner. Time Warner is in the traditional media business; AOL is an Internet company. Because the two didn't overlap, antitrust lawyers saw no need for concern. But the more people looked, the more they thought this was not just a marriage of two companies in different arenas. It was potentially game changing...