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...Today we’ve had a national tragedy,” President George W. Bush said from Sarasota, Fla. yesterday morning as reports of the attacks began filtering...
...growth. Even during the current downturn, GE posted a healthy 15% rise in second-quarter earnings, though its stock has fallen 33% since its most recent high of $60 last August. No wonder, then, that as Immelt put it at the company's annual managers' meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., in January, "everybody at GE thinks they work for Jack; every customer of GE thinks they buy from Jack; every political person thinks they deal with Jack...
...enjoyed your excellent article. These are the types of people who should be making decisions on stem-cell research and other scientific matters, not the clergy or a bunch of "Bush leaguers." RUSS CARDWELL Fort Myers, Fla. Your list reflected a rather anthropocentric view of the scientific world. More than half the awardees work directly on questions about humans. But many of America's best scientists are not studying human-centered questions. Why no scientists whose research focuses primarily on plants or fungi? Why no inorganic chemists? There is a persistent notion that the science that most directly applies...
...gave you "The Best," but predictably some of you weren't satisfied, particularly self-selected spokesmen for sectors seen as slighted. An M.I.T. scientist chided us for overlooking physics-related fields other than astrophysics. Labeling the series "ludicrous," a Ph.D. in Boca Raton, Fla., bewailed the absence of a computer scientist. "Are not computers one of the most important developments ever?" A frustrated engineer fumed, "I find the promotion of those who use technology created by engineers and physicists and who take all the credit very disappointing. Without those thousands of engineers developing the technologies that the medical and biological...
Becky Long, 63, of Tampa, Fla., has been taking the prescription drug Celebrex for her arthritis for the past two years. So when she heard the news last week that the drug, along with another painkiller called Vioxx, might be associated with an increased risk of heart attack, she called her doctor right away. Her biggest concern was not what you might expect, however. "The first thing I thought of was that Celebrex gave me my life back," says Long, who used to find climbing stairs impossible but has since felt well enough to travel to Nepal. "What would...