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...although researchers may obtain Melton’s stem cells for free, they must still obtain private sources of money to do their experiments—perhaps the biggest obstacle in performing stem cell research, according to Helen M. Blau, director of Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine...
Delbanco cites Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Wharton, Diane Johnson and Charles Baxter as some authors she admires, with Jane Austen her “favorite author of all time.” Though she defers energetically from comparing herself to the latter, Delbanco admits that much of her writing borrows from Austen’s techniques...
...opinion of New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer, Pilgrim Baxter & Associates can claim the title of Most Egregiously Corrupt among the growing list of mutual funds under investigation. "Here you had the founders themselves manipulating the system," Spitzer told TIME. "There's an extra level of insidiousness to it." Complaints filed last week by Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Gary Pilgrim and Harold Baxter with civil fraud. They are accused of allowing an outside hedge fund (in which Pilgrim held a major stake) to make rapid trades in Pilgrim Baxter funds, a practice forbidden...
...Pilgrim Baxter quickly distanced itself from its founders, who resigned Nov. 13. "The way things were done is not the way they'll be done in the future," says new CEO David Bullock. He claims that an internal review has so far turned up no other issues, and that investors have not left the $7 billion fund in significant numbers. Still, the firm will have to contend with its eponyms' dubious legacy: Spitzer is demanding that it return $250 million in fees to investors, a potentially crippling penalty. --By Jyoti Thottam
...medical problems experienced from their breast implants, and the FDA’s own epidemiologists have identified long-term potential health risks from silicone implants, such as fibromyalgia. Just this month, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear a lawsuit against former manufacturers of breast implants, including Baxter, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company and 3M on behalf of the federal government and tens of thousands of U.S. women with implant-related medical problems. As of January 2000, the FDA had received 123 reports of deaths allegedly related to breast implants...