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...Another problem - increasingly - is conflict of interest. As pharmaceutical companies fund more of their own trials, the studies may be designed to yield the sunniest results possible. Allowing a new drug to shadow-box against a placebo, for instance, promises more marketable results than pitting it against a competing drug that's already on the market. Publicizing only surrogate outcomes without mentioning whether the patient benefits in any substantive way is another common drug company dodge. So is burying - or at least minimizing - side effects or other shortcomings...
...slated for that period, no Bollywood films were due for release, all TV serials were heading for a close just before IPL. People will be angry," he says. In a country where the price of onions has determined election results, messing with cricket might prove costly at the ballot box...
...slow to do it, citing the expense and security. Disney chairman Dick Cook is credited with breaking the initial logjam with Chicken Little in 2005. About 75 theaters converted to digital to show the film, and a surprising thing happened: 3-D theaters reported three to four times the box-office gross as those that showed the 2-D version. (All 3-D movies can easily be stepped down to 2-D and are typically shown in both forms.) That was the jump start digital 3-D needed. Katzenberg predicts that more than 2,000 theaters will...
...evidently Roberts practices what she preaches. The '90s box-office queen has a life, including a husband who works in Hollywood (but below the line), three kids and a solar-powered house. With her latest choice of roles, she's aiming not just higher but also smarter...
...repudiated in favor of secular, nationalist groups. But will this resurgent nationalism carry through to the more important parliamentary elections slated for December? And if so, what will a reordered Iraqi political scene mean for future U.S. ties to Iraq? Will sharpened intrasectarian battles be fought at the ballot box or on the streets...