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...biotech and tend to shun early-stage research in favor of safer investments in drugs near approval or already approved. Bristol-Myers Squibb made a disastrous $2 billion investment in 2001 in ImClone Systems, which suffered costly setbacks with its cancer drug Erbitux before that drug had a breakthrough this spring. With Big Pharma playing it safe, steady-earning biotech leaders are the ones with the wherewithal--and the disposition--to partner with cash-strapped firms developing promising treatments...
Brennan believes that artisanal cheesemaking (crafting cheese in small quantities) is on the verge of a breakthrough in the U.S., "like the wine industry was 20 years ago." Then a good bottle of wine was saved for special occasions. "Now, on weekday nights, people will open a nice bottle of wine," he says. "My goal is to get them to have a piece of good cheese as well...
...It’s naive to think that simply collecting large amounts of information will lead to fundamental breakthrough,” Maniatis said. “It’s not a very effective way of organizing research...
...South Pacific, were shot down again. Such moves require the support of three-fourths of voting members rather than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ex-ambassador to the U.K., had mobilized support from "like- minded" countries - and signing...
...politics for nearly half a century. Rauf is still the most important Denktash on Cyprus, but the son may be rising. Serdar, 44, worked behind the scenes this spring to secure the opening of the heavily fortified "green line" that has split the island since 1974 - the most significant breakthrough in Cyprus in years. The April decision came with the backing of the government and Turkey, but Serdar was its architect - persuading his father and the Turkish government in Ankara. "We wanted to show that we mean business, that we are in search of a solution," he says, sitting beneath...