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James Mullen and the biotechnology industry arrived on the scene together by chance in 1980. That year he landed his first job out of college, as a chemical engineer for what is now GlaxoSmithKline, and at about the same time the pioneering biotech firm Genentech sold its first shares to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will This Experiment Work? | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

It's no accident that the Benjamin Franklin you see on our cover is portrayed as a kind of action hero. Of all the founding fathers, he was early America's boldest intellectual adventurer, making history in every realm from science to business to statesmanship. "My goal," says artist Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Rediscovered a Founding Father | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

(3 of 3) The benefits of competition in the passenger sector are murkier. The British experience has been horrendous. Britain completed the privatization of its rail system in 1997, breaking the formerly integrated network known as British Rail into more than 100 different firms. At the center was Railtrack, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Anyone Here Run A Railroad? | 7/6/2003 | See Source »

Such anxiety may result from the fact that Wilson drifted into acting by accident. In his early 20s, he was, by his own description, "floundering," when he was drafted into the profession by his older brother Owen, who needed cheap labor for a movie he was working on with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Boyfriend | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

RESIGNED. THOMAS O'BRIEN, 67, bishop of Phoenix, Ariz.; after being charged with leaving the scene of an accident in which his car struck and killed a 43-year-old carpenter. The accident followed a year of turmoil over O'Brien's alleged role in protecting priests accused of sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 30, 2003 | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

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