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...treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never felt before. "It's no longer spin the wheel, let's try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We're going to know why a drug is or isn't working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study it, if one approach doesn't fly, there will be no shortage of other ideas...
...EMERGING TECH PARTNERS KEY OFFICERS: Wei-Wu He, William F. Snider, Emanuel J. Friedman FOUNDED: September 2000 FUND SIZE: $40 million WHAT IT DOES: Venture-capital fund that invests in local genomics firms...
...encomiums were overdone by a commentariat that praises freely only when it comes to bury. Gore went gently into that good night because, as New York Timesman Thomas Friedman put it, someone had "to take a bullet for the country...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...While it avoids Kaplan's epic pessimism, "Global Trends 2015" still shares more common ground with his gloomy worldview than with the sunny optimism of Tom Friedman or the wishful spin of President Clinton...