Word: czars
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...entice more drugmakers into biodefense, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr is sponsoring a bill that would establish a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) headed by a biosecurity czar. (Estimated cost: $1 billion annually.) His bill would require the government to make gradual payments to drug companies based on R&D milestones, similar to the way defense contracting works, and would grant companies a 10-year period of market exclusivity for drugs designated as countermeasures. (Drug-patent terms typically vary depending on the date the application was filed and when the product is actually marketed.) More controversial, the bill...
Laura C. McKiernan ’08: Co-Photo Czar...
Matthew R. Conroy ’07: Co-Photo Czar...
...look changed. In 1570 Johannes Molanus, the Counter-Reformation's religious-art czar, banned the old, bald Joseph and stipulated a younger model. Artists like Murillo responded, resulting in, as Miesel puts it, "a vigorous, really studly Joseph." His saintly portfolio became extraordinarily diverse. (He now enjoys 24 "patronages.") Jerome's old notion had turned him into the patron of virgins, even as his paternal status made him the patron of families. The apocryphal scene of his death surrounded by Mary and Jesus was translated into his patronage of good deaths. ("When I was a little Catholic girl," recalls Anne...
...Orleans residents to develop priorities, brainstorm ideas with planners and businessmen, and present a unified voice. The Authority vice chair Walter Isaacson petitioned Congress last week for help in establishing a "recovery corporation" as a vehicle for the city's rebuilding neighborhoods. Donald Powell, the new hurricane czar appointed by George W. Bush, said his job is to listen and gather facts to help the President "understand the vision of the local people." The one-time banker, who admits he has a little boning up to do on levees, says he will spend the next few weeks shuttling...