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...tech companies to plunk down billions of dollars on deals in recent weeks is a sign that senior executives believe the economy has bottomed and that buying now is better than buying later. "It's clearly a sign of renewed optimism" in the market and sector, says Peter Bell, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Mergers and Acquisitions Coming Back | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...study, published in the October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers recruited 115 cocaine-dependent people who were also addicted to heroin and enrolled in a methadone-treatment program, which made it easier for investigators to keep people in the study for a full 12 weeks. Half of the participants were given five injections of the vaccine over the course of the study, while the other half received a placebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cautious Hopes for a Cocaine Vaccine | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...This is a unique opportunity for students everywhere,” said Andreas Panayiotou, the consul-general of the Republic of Cyprus. “Cyprus can take advantage of the expertise Harvard offers, and there will be much intellectual exchange...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard School of Public Health Partners with Cyprus Government | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Early this morning, Dr. Jack Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School learned that he and two colleagues had won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work with telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from, um, "fraying." Yeah. We'll leave our explanation at that...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: HMS's Szostak Wins Nobel Prize | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Sarah Kerrigan, a forensic toxicologist who was appointed by Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, told TIME that she had circulated a letter she had sent "three or four weeks ago" in support of Bassett to Perry among the commission's members and she was aware of similar letters written by Watts and Levy. (The governor appoints four members of the forensics board; the state attorney general appoints two and the lieutenant governor appoints three. In this case, Bassett, Levy and Watts were all Perry appointees. Bassett was first named to the commission in 2005 and reappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Texas Gut Its Forensics Commission? | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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