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...Omen According to a British documentary, a 4,500-page handwritten manuscript by 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton calculates the end of the world as 57 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milstones | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

...middle-sized drug companies, such as Germany's Schering. A mid-sized suitor would be attracted to Bayer's existing U.S. sales and Bayer management could receive 30-40% of the shares in such a combination. "There is nothing in it for big companies like Glaxo," says Colin Isaac, an analyst with J.P. Morgan. "Bayer is No. 18 in terms of sales but in terms of profitability they are 43." Small size is not an issue in the marriage of Pfizer and Pharmacia. The main driver for their merger is that Pfizer lacks blockbusters in its pipeline. By buying another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who'll Swallow Bayer? | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

Boston attorney Isaac Peres, who represents the tenants, filed a motion Monday to dismiss the case, which was scheduled to begin on January...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Company Settles Lawsuit | 12/18/2002 | See Source »

...wonder what response God would have received had he asked Isaac's mother Sarah to take her son's life. If any God asked me to sacrifice one of my two sons, even if it were only a sadistic test of my devotion, I would say that such a God is not worthy of being worshipped. Joanne Mitchell Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 2002 | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

There is an eerie effortlessness to the way in which fights picked by scriptural revisionists hundreds of years ago feed today's psychology of mutual victimhood. The Jewish Theological Seminary's Magid describes a 1st century tradition in which Ishmael is a bully and Isaac "becomes the persecuted younger brother." That belief has persisted. "The Muslims are very aggressive, like Ishmael," an Israeli settler tells Feiler. "And the Jews are very passive, like Isaac, who nearly allows himself to be killed without talking back. That's why they are killing us, because we don't fight back." Arafat's religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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