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...idea of a magic bullet is now no longer a pie in the sky,” said Thompson, explaining that the dream of an infallible treatment for cancer is now a real possibility...
...trust-me CEO took another bullet last week, when American International Group (AIG) fessed up to improper bookkeeping in a deal with a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. AIG severed ties with its iconic former CEO Maurice (Hank) Greenberg. But it is Greenberg's link to the even more lionized Buffett that's causing the biggest stir...
...last glimpse of him high above the square became the latest in an album of images he left behind: a kiss on the tarmac in each new city; a smile lit by love and certainty; a white robe stained red by a would-be assassin's bullet, and the public forgiveness that followed; a challenge thrown down before prisoners and Presidents, sinners and saints to heed the highest calling of their hearts. He was the first Pope ever to visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many...
...Bush Administration's hit list. Florida Governor Jeb Bush is paying a team of lobbyists, including former House majority leader Dick Armey, $50,000 a month to help fortify his state's 21 installations. Presumably, Jeb has George's cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President...
StriVectin is either the latest fad in that movement or an antiaging silver bullet, depending on whom you ask. But in either case, it is clearly one of the most talked about new products in the industry, roiling competitors, realigning expectations and even prompting lawsuits--from Botox maker Allergan, which disputes StriVectin's advertising claims, and from StriVectin itself, against alleged copycat marketers pushing similarly named knock-offs. Priced at a hefty $135 per 6-oz. tube, StriVectin, made by privately held Klein-Becker, a division of Salt Lake City, Utah-- based weight-loss-supplement maker Basic Research, last year...