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Hana Biologics Inc., Alameda, Calif.: Aeneas Venture owns about $10 million worth of stock in this biotech firm. After controversial fetal tissue experiments failed and stock prices crashed, large investors took over--and Aeneas partner Michael R. Eisenson was installed as a director...
...crow -- or in this case the seagull -- flies, it is a mere eleven miles across San Francisco Bay from Candlestick Park, home of the National League pennant-winning Giants, to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, where the American League champion Athletics play. That distance is only a tad farther than the mileage between Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and the Brooklyn housing project where Ebbets Field used to be, sites of the last public- transit World Series back in 1956. This week the A's and Giants, having finished off their respective challengers from Toronto and Chicago, are launched...
...that's crushed, a lot of debris, you usually find the people slumped over the steering wheel," said Alameda firefighter Matt Tunney, who spent the night helping remove five bodies...
...response, Dr. David Rothman of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center notes, "This is not a country that has ever turned its back on new technology." On the broader issue of rationing, many opponents argue that the new Oregon and Alameda County regulations are inherently unfair, since the limits on health-care protection apply only to the poor, particularly the young. Dr. Sam Flint, a director of the American Academy of Pediatrics, notes that children account for roughly 50% of the Medicaid population but receive only about one-fifth of health-care dollars. Meanwhile, the elderly get about...
With shrinking budgets and a growing load of uninsured patients, Oregon and California's Alameda County are setting priorities on what services they will...