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...company, Vasella championed "life sciences," the idea that biotechnology would unite nutritional, agricultural and pharmaceutical businesses. But the expected synergies did not materialize for Novartis, or for any other company that tried the life-sciences approach. Once he saw his vision wasn't working, Vasella was quick to abandon it. He divested Novartis of its agribusiness unit...
...possible solution would be to stick with the cold virus but use different HIV genes and two injections spaced a few months apart. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, thinks the answer might be to abandon the cold virus and switch to another one, perhaps chicken pox. HIV won yet another round, but the game is long--and science is patient. How an aids vaccine could work [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] 1 A cold virus has been engineered to carry three synthetically produced...
...Coyne ’99, and Maxwell N. Krohn ’99 have released CrazyBlindDate.com, a Web site designed to add spice to the online dating community by pairing users up on blind dates. “Sometimes you just want to go out immediately, with reckless abandon,” the team says on the site. Also behind the creation of a more conventional online dating site—OkCupid.com—the three Harvard graduates hope to enhance the dating scene at universities like Harvard. CrazyBlindDate—which is focused on Boston, New York...
...talent, privilege, and opportunity—there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us,” Gates said. “And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.” The gauntlet had been thrown down: as newly-minted reservoirs of resources and education, the only way to avoid “torment?...
...During times of repression, icons such as Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Burmese independence hero Aung San, can be powerful symbols of hope, and reminders of a country's golden years. But once countries become democracies, parties controlled by dynasties often abandon ideology, because they become entrenched around families who concentrate only on perpetuating themselves, shutting out outside thinkers who can germinate ideas and passion. Shinzo Abe, grandson of a former Prime Minister, spent his time in office focused on historic legacies like Japan's conduct in World War II, rather than addressing pressing challenges like how to boost...