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...intelligence wars will continue. TIME has learned that CIA Director George Tenet is hammering out a new National Intelligence Estimate on post-Saddam Iraq, which will assess the threats to national security posed by the nation now that some 135,000 US troops are stationed there. Tenet faces the dicey task of squaring findings thus far in Iraq with last year's NIE, from which a declassified October 2002 report on Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction was drawn. Among the conclusions in last year's report were that "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons"; and "Saddam probably...
Here's where the American Idol business gets dicey. Davis would like RCA to curate the careers of artists; Fuller wants his idols to have long recording careers too, as long as they don't forsake the Idol audience. (Fuller was incensed that Davis spent eight months refining Clarkson's debut for radio rather than getting it to market as soon as possible.) "You have to serve many masters when you have that many people with a vested interest in you," says Ennis. "You can't skew yourself one way and not speak to the people who spent all that...
...creating the industry's most extensive sales force. So he's well suited to his task. But even if his deal goes through (Genentech is seen as a competing suitor for IDEC), and even if he manages to instill new management intensity in the industry, biotech will remain a dicey game. Only one drug in 5,000 screened makes it to market. "We'll take the risk that a company fails to execute its plan once it has a drug approval," says Stuart Weisbrod, chief investment officer of Merlin Biomed, a health-care hedge fund. "What we don't want...
...even if his deal goes through (Genentech is seen as a competing suitor for IDEC) and even if he manages to instill a new level of management intensity in the industry, biotech will remain a dicey game. Only one drug in 5,000 screened makes it to market, and even seasoned health-care investors are reluctant to handicap the process. "We'll take the risk that a company fails to execute its plan once it has a drug approval," says Stuart Weisbrod, chief investment officer of Merlin Biomed, a health-care hedge fund. "What we don't want...
Things apparently got dicey for Nefertiti sometime after the 12th year of Akhenaten's 17-year reign. She vanished from the historical record about that time. She may have died or, Egyptologists speculate, may have served as co-regent with her husband and after his death, as Pharaoh herself. If so, she ruled under a different name and only briefly, until Tutankhamen took over...