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...nearly as long as the Sunshine State has attracted retirees, it has been a rich market for DuPont Pharmaceuticals. The company sells close to $50 million of its blood thinner Coumadin to heart and stroke patients in Florida each year, and it had the market all to itself until 1997. Then the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Barr Laboratories' generic version, and suddenly DuPont's monopoly was threatened...
...three years running, DuPont has managed to shut Barr out. This month it quashed a bill that would have made it easier for Florida patients to get generic substitutes for certain brand-name prescriptions. As a result, Floridians are paying at least 25% more for their blood-thinning medication than they would if they had access to the generic version. And the cost of the drug keeps going...
Between the political prisoner and the psychotic genius lies the ordinary player. Like me. We need company. In spring I still frequent the chess tables at Washington's Dupont Circle. On Monday nights my friends still drive to my house for our weekly speed-chess round robin...
During warm-ups in MIT's Dupont Gymnasium, the Crimson (5-1, 3-0) appeared well rested and ready to play. Pre-game serving was crisp and automatic, passes were accurate and Harvard ran its set plays to perfection...
...perhaps to taxi the multidimensional CEO from his desk at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., to his other CEO job at Pixar Animation Studios, a few short miles across San Francisco Bay. "This guy has saved this company," says board member Edgar Woolard Jr., a former chairman of DuPont...