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...potential consequences of climate change weren't scary enough, the IPCC emphasized just how little time we have left to try to change the future. The panel reported that the world would have to reverse the rapid growth of greenhouse gases by 2015 to avert the worst consequences. The clock was running. "What we will do in the next two, three years will determine our future," said Pachauri. "This is the defining challenge...
...getting heard in Congress. But so is Vasella, who employs 19,000 Americans and recently opened a $250 million research facility in Cambridge, Mass. He routinely meets with U.S. lawmakers and regulators. Among drug-company CEOs, he has taken the lead in giving a little on prices to avert sweeping new regulations...
Vasella, acutely aware that his industry is losing the p.r. battle, believes that proactive concessions will help avert legislative action. Novartis donates antileprosy drugs to India, sells antimalaria drugs at cost to the World Health Organization and has established a research center in Singapore to develop treatments for Third World diseases like tuberculosis, whose sufferers can't pay much. (He is not alone in this. Merck has set up anti-AIDS programs in Botswana, and Aventis is helping tackle AIDS in South Africa.) Eight drug companies, including Novartis, have announced a drug-discount program in the U.S. that they...
...larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed serious concern about the military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, while State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert...
...have long watched these two enigmatic Red Sox stars with the rapt attention one might pay to a car accident—as much as you want to avert your eyes from the fiery wreckage of yet another Ramirez base-running blunder or J-pap victory dance, you are physically unable to. But over the course of the Red Sox’s championship run, it dawned on us that while the media might lampoon—sometimes affectionately, sometimes not—Manny’s space-cadet qualities or Papelbon’s meat-headed antics and deranged...