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...ingredient in OxyContin, for nonmedical reasons jumped from 11.8 million in 2002 to 13.7 million in 2003. The increase happened even though OxyContin's maker stopped distributing its strongest pill, the 160-mg tablet, in 2001 and more states began prescription-monitoring programs to detect abusers who go from doctor to doctor looking for pills. In December the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a toll-free number to report the illegal sale of prescription drugs...
...Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb...
Besides, Rice went out and got a great big gun of her own, bringing on board the only other person (besides Laura Bush) who is closer to Bush than she is: Karen Hughes, Bush's longtime spin doctor in chief. As Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, Hughes is taking on the difficult task of selling the idea of the U.S. to the Muslim world. But the mere fact that Hughes and Rice will work just steps apart on the State Department's storied seventh floor will make that agency a newly formidable counterweight in policy debates. Meanwhile, the other burr...
...Chinese banks will wallop the economy. "I see a market filled with pitfalls," he says. "China is deceptive. Growth doesn't necessarily translate into profit." During a February luncheon in Hong Kong, Shan shocked the crowd by challenging Nobel-prizewinning economist Amartya Sen for praising Mao's "barefoot doctor" program as a sound way to provide health care to the poor. Shan, recalling his experience in the Gobi, noted that the government trapped people in the service in deplorable living conditions. Says he: "If there's a record that needs setting straight, I'll set it straight." Though no longer...
Until quite recently, that wouldn't have been a smart bet. The idea of harnessing microbes to do a doctor's bidding flourished briefly in the 1960s, during the early days of the genetic revolution. Scientists sketched out grand plans for treating disease by adding or removing genes taken from bacteria or viruses. Because they were so good at penetrating cells, infectious agents seemed the ideal vehicles for delivering drugs. Some cancer patients were treated with experimentally modified viruses, and a few even saw their tumors shrink. Too often, however, scientists lost control of their microbial partners. "It wasn...