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...ship the first FDA-approved DNA diagnostic chips to labs in the U.S. The tiny gene detector, named AmpliChip, can help physicians assess how sensitive patients are to many commonly prescribed drugs. But will doctors order the test, which could cost $520? "We need to drive awareness," admits Heino von Prondzynski, global head of Roche Diagnostics. "Physicians usually don't know what to do with this information." Roche will also have to persuade insurers to cover the expense. It does have the stats on its side: adverse drug reactions take more than 100,000 lives and add $136 billion...
...rollicks and lilts. It provides a smooth connection between Brahms' parody of German schoolboys' drinking songs and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which, its composer wrote, captures the Russian alcoholic soul. Tubin, born in Kallaste, Estonia in 1905, moved to Sweden in 1944, after studying with Kodaly in Budapest and Heino Eller in Tartu. The symphony is in one big movement, and the melodies are folksy, recalling Bartok in rhythm and structure. Syncopation and dotted notes, along with the rolling figures in the strings, give the piece a gypsy personality. Just as enticing, however, was the underlying...
...take as extreme a line as the Israelis. But they believe that the problem can only be solved if all nations agree that skyjacking is a crime and pledge to extradite or prosecute offenders. "As long as there are countries granting these people asylum," says Lufthansa Pilot Heino Caesar, "the problem will be with...
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...Finns thought they had the race to themselves, as they usually have (the great Paavo Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow Finn, Heinstrom, padding at his heels. Like a patient English housewife in a fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping...