Word: glaciality
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Vasella points out that bringing a drug to market can take a decade and that the glacial pace of drug development and FDA approval puts companies under tremendous pressure to extend exclusive rights to their drugs. Better, he suggests, to grant a drug market exclusivity for a limited period that starts only after it obtains FDA approval...
Last May, the flaws of the constantly maligned Core Curriculum were recognized by the Faculty in legislation. But what does that mean for current students? Apparently, not much. Given the Faculty’s glacial pace on this issue, the Classes of 2008, 2009, and 2010 are already resigned to their fate: there’s no escaping the Core. And given the Core-centric advice received over the past two weeks by the Class of 2011, it seems that the College thinks they too will not get to reap the benefits of a revitalized General Education program. In other...
With its craggy peaks and glacial valleys, Central Otago would appear to be the last place you could grow grapes. Located below the 45th parallel near the tip of New Zealand's South Island and with elevations of 650 to 1,475 ft. (200 to 450 m) above sea level, this is extreme-sports country. The world's top snowboarders compete on mountains buffeted by winds from Antarctica. In fact, Pinot vines don't mind a blanket of snow as long as summer temperatures are warm enough for the slow ripening needed for intense flavors and complexities to develop. "Pinot...
...PORTUGUESE POLICE HAVE HANDED 3,000 pages of evidence to the district attorney, who in turn submitted them to a judge who must decide whether to bring charges against the parents. Given the usually glacial pace of the Portuguese justice system, the decision may not be quick. Meanwhile, the McCanns are back in England, surrounded by a resolutely supportive family. Some in Britain have called for the other McCann children to be removed to protective custody. Kate and Gerry won't allow that without a fight. They have hired top lawyers, including one who barred the extradition of Chilean dictator...
...plates were giving way to film, and new chemicals and techniques were broadening the photographer's palette. Atget mostly shunned these advances, using a bulky, large-format view camera on a tripod - and never any artificial light, even for interiors. He figured exposure times in his head - a relatively glacial 1/11th of a second was typical - and learned how to narrow the aperture to ensure that both background and foreground remained in focus. His genius lay in making a picture look artfully composed yet breathlessly immediate: what Evans called his "lyrical understanding of the street...