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...Although bringing a new drug to market can be time-consuming (up to 15 years) and costly ($500 million), Nichols was undaunted. In 1989 he started his own pharmaceutical company, Cell Pathways, with Dr. Rifat Pamukcu--the lone physician at the University of Chicago who had supported his decision to forgo surgery--as chief scientific officer. At first, Nichols used his own money, then he turned to friends, and finally he sold off shares to venture capitalists, eventually raising $81.5 million but leaving him with only an insignificant interest in Cell Pathways. Getting rich was never his goal...
Other California teachers have changed genders with little fuss--including a performing-arts teacher at Red Bluff High School, 150 miles northwest of Sacramento, who became a woman. In June the school board seemed to accept Rivers' decision, noting in a letter to parents that "although some board members hold personal values that differ from those of this individual," the job of a tenured teacher with good performance evaluations is protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers...
...Although an estimated 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, only 26% of those battling moderate to severe pain are referred to the proper specialists. This doesn't mean other doctors can't treat pain effectively, but the complexity of diagnosing the condition and designing a treatment for a specific patient, especially prescribing possibly addictive narcotic-based painkillers, can make this a difficult and tedious task if a physician isn't well versed in pain management...
...minutiae on the family members who had less to do with the newspaper), Tifft--a former writer for TIME--and Jones forcefully make the point that the self-effacing Ochs-Sulzberger clan got one big thing right: the need to protect and nurture the paper entrusted to them. Although this book is light on the financial and business detail that would permit a fuller judgment of the family's management of their trust, the story of the Ochs-Sulzberger family makes one want to join the cheer sent up by former executive editor Max Frankel on the occasion of Arthur...
...about J.K. Rowling is she can't be a Muggle to have spun such a feast for the imagination as her Harry Potter books! I am in awe of Rowling's ability to create such a magical world of wizardry that seemingly sprang into her head (although I have a theory that she herself is a Hogwarts graduate!). I hope each of her future fabulous books brings her even greater success than the last. And long life, Harry Potter! MARYKATHRYN GIELISSE, AGE 13 Poughkeepsie...