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...options on the table include moving a cluster of graduate schools, anchored by the Law School, or creating a science park with possible tie-ins to commercial biotech...
Although there’s plenty of scare-mongering going on on both sides of the debate, nothing will get resolved without more testing. The problem in the United States is that most of the testing seems to be done under the aegis of huge biotech firms, either in-house or through funding at large universities with flagrant disregard for any conflict-of-interest considerations. This fact seems to have slipped under the radar of most U.S. commentators and watchdog groups...
...have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment of 1,000 tons of corn-soya mix when the U.S. again refused to guarantee that no G.M. foods were contained in the shipment...
GOODWIN: My picks are much different. In health care, I am concerned that earnings estimates might be too high for the large-cap pharmaceutical stocks, so we have been focusing primarily on other health-care names like Amgen in biotech [0%] and Anthem [0%], which has consolidated Blue Cross/Blue Shield franchises. In consumer-oriented stocks, we like International Game Technologies [0%]. This is the dominant supplier of gambling equipment, poised to benefit from the fact that states are trying to make up for revenue shortfalls by liberalizing gambling. Finally, technology--I couldn't leave that out. IBM [0.8%] just reported...
...main options on the table involve moving a cluster of graduate schools, anchored by the law school, or creating a major science complex, with an emphasis on biotech research. But second question everyone asks, Zeckhauser says, is always how Harvard will get its people to Allston...