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...drug companies' arguments that doing so will destroy their research-and-development budgets? Drug development has become so expensive it's going to become unaffordable no matter what happens. A lot of the expense is a consequence of the drug-regulatory authorities, who pile on regulation after regulation, which makes getting a drug to market hugely expensive. But the expectations of investors have to be tempered as well. The 15-20% [growth] of some companies is not going to be possible in the future. A third of staff of some big pharmacy companies work in marketing, and many companies spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Is a Year of Life Worth? | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...peaceful out here. I love the wildlife," says Mike Strobridge, 32, an auto mechanic, explaining why he moved to the Carrisa Plains with his daughter. "But then these solar guys are going to come in, and they're just gonna destroy the area." Strobridge is especially troubled because he will be "surrounded on four sides" by the three projects. What's more, like his neighbors and other concerned parties - including the Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo County - Strobridge is worried about the impact the power plants will have on endangered species such as the San Joaquin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solar Power: Eco-Friendly or Environmental Blight? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

Quelle horreur! French winemakers are apoplectic. The idea is, they say, heresy. If meddling bureaucrats get their way, it could destroy winemaking traditions that have been nurtured over centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War of the Rosé: French Winemakers vs. the E.U. | 3/21/2009 | See Source »

...defined by a common experience. It should have been a generation outward looking in a positive way, with more education, access to technology and aspirations for economic mobility." Instead, he says, "it's become hostage to post-9/11 politics." Disillusioned with extremists who can destroy but who fail to construct alternatives that improve daily life, members of the post-9/11 generation are increasingly relying on Islamic values rather than on a religion-based ideology to advance their aims. And importantly, the soft revolution has generated a new self-confidence among Muslims and a sense that the answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quiet Revolution Grows in the Muslim World | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...destroy it, the population must actively turn against subversive elements within it, and either fight or flush them out in the same way that Sunni tribal sheiks in Anbar switched sides and allied with the Americans against al-Qaeda in their province, a movement known as the Sahwa. That hasn't happened yet, General Brown says, because Mosul's diverse makeup has proved difficult to foster such a movement. The Anbar Sahwa fell into line behind tribal sheiks, whose word is law, but Nineveh is not exclusively a tribal society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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