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...this is changing. In a town where hearts once stood firm against nature's capriciousness, a lawsuit now demands human accountability. On April 10, 2002, a fishing boat called the Radiant foundered in the North Atlantic. Its life craft capsized, and only one of six life jackets inflated properly, an official investigation revealed. One man died, while five others huddled for hours in frigid waters before a rescue helicopter saved them. Scotland's highest civil court is now preparing to hear a $2 million claim against the boat's owners and skipper. The plaintiffs, William Beedie and Shaun Downie, survived...
...biotech firm in Palo Alto, Calif., held exclusive rights to sell that particular type of hormone sample, known as human recombinant relaxin...
...firm, Connetics Corp., offered two free samples to the Harvard researcher and wanted to negotiate a long-term sample-sharing arrangement...
Venture capitalist Mark Carthy says that Harvard’s policy is “ridiculous”; professors often have to drop their research at the moment that private investors step in. Carthy is a general partner at Oxford Bioscience Partners, a firm in Boston that has supported several companies based on Harvard’s research...
...past two or three years," Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and president of technology, tells TIME. "It's really a significant undertaking." But with a 64% share of the search market, far ahead of rivals Yahoo! (22%) and MSN (9%), according to Hitwise, an online market research firm, why does the world's most visited site and most valuable brand need to toy with a core product that isn't broken...