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Insisting that patients be given the unvarnished truth about clinical trials might scare many away. But that doesn't bother Alan Milstein, an attorney who has represented Jesse Gelsinger's family, as well as many of the participants in McGee's study. "The biggest myth out there," Milstein says, "is that every one of these studies is essential to the advancement of medicine. That's just nonsense. Most have to do with the advancement of the researcher himself." If it were just a lawyer talking, that sentiment might be easy to dismiss. But Marcia Angell expresses a similar criticism...
...taken the ancient wisdom of the original design and incorporated modern technology and fabrics," says Alan Bair, president of Pacific Yurts, a leading manufacturer of prefab yurts. Bair built his first yurt 25 years ago after spotting one in the pages of National Geographic. Over time he improved on tradition with seven-ply reflective insulation, architectural-quality vinyl-laminated fabrics and aircraft-quality tension cables to produce a warm, draft-free, ultra-stable modern superyurt. He now employs more than 20 people full-time supplying yurts to ski resorts, national parks, military bases and thousands of private yurt enthusiasts...
Soft-spoken former journalist Alan Brady founded the vineyard in 1987 but soon tired of the endless promoting and tourism. He moved down the road to start again, this time in search of the perfect Pinot Noir. "I really wanted to get back to the reality of wine," he says, his nose deep in a glass of his latest vintage, "which for me is getting tired and dirty at harvest time." He takes a sip and smiles. "Now I am not driven by any market demands?I am producing the wine I want to and the market seems to like...
...Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, tried and failed to crack the Hong Kong market in the 1990s. Hong Kong consumers seemed to prefer familiar neighborhood chain stores. Carrefour lost $400 million between 1996 and 2000 on four Hong Kong outlets. "It all ended in tears, really," says Alan Treadgold, director of retail research for ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Sydney. "They just couldn't make the format work...
Another pre-frosh, Alan Chu from Ann Arbor, Mich., also said he thought the poster was unclear...