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Stone finds some solace in the fact that the Athenians didn't try Socrates until he was 70 years old. At that time, Athens was in the throes of 10 years of turmoil during which the democracy twice was overthrown. Socrates taught many of the anti-democratic usurpers and his doctrines could easily be seen as inciting them toward future rebellion. In 411 and 404 B.C., Socrates, if only through his silence, sided with the forces of dictatorship. In 401 B.C., two years before Socrates went on trial, the enemies of democracy began plotting again...
Perhaps. But he may very well have spent his life spoofing politics and the non-philosophers who dominate political life. The political philosophy of Socrates thus is, oddly enough, anti-political. Only the philosophical life of contemplation is, ultimately, above contempt...
...each rang up more than $100 million in 1987 sales, well ahead of Britain's Glaxo Holdings, which has five products in that rarefied range. Among Merck's best sellers are Vasotec, a blood pressure-lowering drug; the antibiotics Primaxin and Noroxin; Pepcid, used to treat peptic ulcers; the anti-inflammatories Clinoril and Indocin; an antiglaucoma agent named Timoptic; and the hepatitis fighter Recombivax HB, the first genetically engineered vaccine licensed for human...
These days Vagelos is pushing his researchers to come up with the next generation of wonder drugs. In the testing stages: another cholesterol- lowering drug that could prove more potent and longer lasting than Mevacor; an anti-ulcer medication that has shown a high degree of effectiveness; MK- 538, a drug that holds promise of aiding diabetes sufferers. Merck will soon launch large-scale clinical trials for MK-906, which in preliminary tests shrank swollen prostate glands without bad side effects, alleviating a problem that vexes millions of men over 40. Other teams are studying cures for cataracts, arthritis, cancer...
Some of last week's most chilling testimony came from Ramon Milian Rodriguez, who described himself as the former chief financier for the drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...