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...maker of the hottest drug on the market, Viagra. Many recent buyers of Pfizer have created a cult with a sworn faith in the stock's momentum. To me, Pfizer is a fine company, for many years a core holding of mine, but now the stock has too much hype in it. I sell it routinely as it gets to $110. Does that mean I hate Pfizer? Hardly. I buy whenever it trades below $100. Why? Because there you are paying a fair price for the promising drugs that come after Viagra...
...CANCER: HYPE VS. HOPE...
Aren't you media people the ones who gave us all the hype about the diet drugs fen/phen and Redux, which turned out to have a dark side? I see no apology for that coverage, and little caution in the current frenzy over Viagra. RICHARD WILLIAM SPENCER Warwick, Australia...
CHRISTINE GORMAN, our health columnist, has spent most of the past 14 years helping readers sort out breaking news on medicine. She wrote TIME's recent cover story that separated the hype from the hope in cancer research. Born in France, she grew up mostly in Pennsylvania and Texas. She finds that "the news most useful to people often doesn't make big headlines." An excellent example is her first column, showing parents how to protect their kids from the dangers of juvenile hypertension, which were described in a new study released last week...
...annual ritual filled with hoopla and hype, the television networks last week rolled out their fall lineups. The winners seemed happy, but behind the scenes, television suppliers were reeling from the pressure being exerted on them by the nets for ownership stakes in their programs. Until three years ago, the networks were limited in the kind of programming they could own, but with the limits lifted, the pressure is on. CBS, which co-owns an unprecedented six of its seven new shows, gave King of Queens a slot on the schedule after COLUMBIA TRISTAR surrendered a share. NewsRadio...