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...code for producing erythropoietin. They placed the gene in a minuscule bacterial structure called a plasmid, inserted the plasmid into the ovary of a hamster and began to produce synthetic erythropoietin. In 1989 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant human erythropoietin under the name Epoetin alfa. The process has since saved thousands of lives...
Frustrated in its effort to challenge the U.S. on the surface, Moscow has built the world's largest, and in some ways most advanced, fleet of nuclear- powered submarines. While the undertaking produced such vessels as the titanium-hulled Alfa-class boats, so expensive that only six were built, it also produced newer Soviet sub classes that go faster, travel deeper and carry more weapons than their American rivals. Moscow's Oscar-class attack submarines are the most heavily armed on the seas...
...turn the 1980s into the Spree Decade. "You work to have what you like, when you like," explains Nino Merenda, 31, a hair stylist in Skokie, Ill. "At this stage, I'd rather have a nice car than money in the bank." In fact, Merenda owns two cars: an Alfa Romeo and a Fiat...
Strasos said he spent most of the $25,000--including a reported $6000 for a used Alfa Romeo--because he thought his parents had wired it to him from Greece. In fact, they had wired him only $4000 in September...
...Taiwan. Next year Ford plans to begin importing a minicar called the Festiva, which will be manufactured by Kia, the automaker's South Korean partner. Ford just missed winning another major ally when it failed two weeks ago in an estimated $2 billion bid to buy Italy's Alfa Romeo, the ailing manufacturer of sexy sports cars. Alfa's current owner, Italy's government, decided to sell the company to Fiat instead...