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Rowling, a single mother who wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from...
Next week a Taiwanese father-and-daughter business team is scheduled to be tried for paying a U.S. research engineer to pilfer manufacturing secrets from label maker Avery Dennison. Another Taiwan-based executive goes on trial in early April, charged with attempting to buy the secret formula for Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Taxol for $400,000--just one of many alleged plots to fleece R. and D.-rich pharmaceutical firms. Last spring a Gillette consultant went to prison for trying to market secret designs of the company's Mach3 razor to competitors such as Bic. And a small...
...conference was sponsored by Nature Genetics, Genomic Profiling Systems, Kaplan, Bristol-Myers Squibb, TAP Pharmaceuticals, MIT and Harvard...
During one of their breaks, Pilgrim and fellowCoop store detective Justin M. Bristol make a tripto Tower Records to visit Haynes in the littlemaroon-doored room. The loss prevention agents, itseems, have their own little clique...
...then researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) couldn't get the same results and Folkman's methods were questioned in a Wall Street Journal article last November. Last week, Folkman's situation seemed to hit a new low as pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squib (BMS) announced they would no longer seek to produce the drugs Folkman developed...