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...Thailand cobra, which can grow to more than 6 ft., is armed with venom that paralyzes nerves and muscles and eventually causes respiratory arrest. For the past 10 years, PhyloMed Corp., of Plantation, Fla., and the Bahamian firm Coral Pharmaceuticals have been conducting clinical trials of Immunokine, a drug derived from Thailand cobra venom, on people with multiple sclerosis. Virtually nontoxic, Immunokine seems to prevent immune cells from attacking and destroying the myelin sheath that protects nerve cells...
...behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit remains neatly buttoned; he wears his omnipresent black running shoes, one crossed over the other. He's not in a quiet conference room at one of the local law offices placed at his disposal but in a Tallahassee, Fla., hotel lobby. As he writes, Boies turns to today's edition of the tag-along journalist who always seems to be hovering nearby and asks, "How do you spell 'auspices...
...extracurriculars (including, George W. Bush would be surprised to learn, the presidency of the campus Young Republicans). He also added more classes, finishing three years' study in two years. He then took off for law school at Northwestern. James Fox Miller, a classmate who is now a prominent Hollywood, Fla., lawyer, remembers listening to Boies speak in a first-year class. "It was mesmerizing," he says. "The first week of law school, and I come home and say to my wife, 'If everyone here is that smart, I'm in trouble...
...Supreme Court upholds the appeals court's reasoning, it is likely to affect not only the kids using vouchers in Cleveland but also 8,000 kids in Milwaukee, Wis., and 52 in Pensacola, Fla., who are beneficiaries of similar programs. And George W. Bush's most controversial education proposal--$1,500 vouchers for kids in failing schools--could be dead. Court watchers take note: as in previous church-state cases, the key vote, as in the election case, appears to belong to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
EATING YOUR CAKE Stock investors leery of market volatility who still want to play might consider market-indexed CDs. Crown Bank of Orlando, Fla., and New South Federal Savings of Birmingham, Ala., offer FDIC-insured CDs tied to the NASDAQ 100 or the S&P 500. Based on the past two decades, both would have done worse than the market but better than non-indexed...