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...DRUGMAKERS Firms that dream up wonder drugs are in one of the few industries that have continued to hire in droves. Swiss-based Novartis AG, which has embarked on a major expansion in the U.S., hired more than 1,800 workers last year and plans to keep hiring at a brisk pace. That includes everyone from marketing and manufacturing staff to people in finance, human resources and, of course, research science. This array of jobs pays anywhere from $30,000 to $300,000 a year. Likewise, Abbott Laboratories hopes to fill 5,000 new positions this year, including posts...
...sounds like leavings from his terrific work on "The Man With the Golden Arm" two years before). The glimpses of midtown midnight Manhattan under the credits put me in mind of a Henry Hook cryptic crossword-puzzle clue - "shining silver trash" - for which the answer is "aglitter" (silver = AG; trash = litter); the movie gleams like a diamond trying to pass itself off as a rhinestone. A truck dumps a pack of newspapers in front of a newsstand, and they flop, like a bunch of fish the papers will soon be wrapping, just as Bernstein's horns scream to a finish...
...this case as evidence the government is not dedicated to conducting a fair trial. He also told reporters his client was denied access to an attorney and subjected to "highly coercive" conditions while in custody of the U.S. military. Ashcroft bridled at the suggestion: Lindh's legal rights, the AG told reporters Tuesday, "have been carefully, scrupulously honored...
Then came Sept. 11. After the hijack terror followed bioterror - anthrax. Faced with the potential of a widespread public health emergency, U.S. officials scrambled to stockpile Cipro, Bayer AG's patented antibiotic used to treat anthrax. Suddenly the U.S. and Canada - long tough on patent protection - found themselves feeling like South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations desperate for needed medicines at low cost. When politicians mentioned overriding patents, Bayer struck discount-purchase deals. Bayer also donated 4 million tablets to the U.S. for emergency and postal workers. Other companies, too, are eager to promote their own low-cost anthrax...
...that Ashcroft is poised to lift the 30-year-old ban, how will Americans respond? By now we have to assume Ashcroft is accustomed to a certain amount of criticism; his remarkable tenure as wartime AG has pitted him against civil libertarians and even a few conservatives who take issue with what they see as the administration?s encroachment on individual rights. This week, however, even Ashcroft may be surprised by his opponents, whose ranks include not only members of the ACLU, but some dedicated Christian conservatives. That?s despite the fact that the obvious target of any surveillance activity...