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...reviews on our site per story, from users who love to review," Petty said. The prize-winning stories receive far more reviews than that, and the number of positive reviews decides each story's ranking. In January, the best-reviewed story of 2008 will claim the $250,000 jackpot...
Those are odds most of corporate America would blanch at. But for drugmakers, high-priced gambles have long been the reality of research and development. To be sure, when they do hit the jackpot, the payoff can be enormous: Roche's pharmaceutical division alone raked in more than $30 billion in sales last year. Its total sales reached $43 billion, generating profits of $10.5 billion. Nonetheless, the days of this trial-and-error approach may soon be over. All of Big Pharma is feeling pressure--from Wall Street, regulators and customers--to take a smarter path to discovery for that...
...This month, an Alaskan mother hit the jackpot. Gov. Sarah Palin? No, Kaylene Johnson, the author of Sarah, the first book to be published about Palin. The slender volume, written well before John McCain chose Palin as his running mate, sold some 10,000 copies when it originally came out in April. Now, with 350,000 copies in print and counting, the book has rocketed onto the New York Times bestseller list...
...said he hopes the new museum will further the understanding of Asian culture. There's little doubt that the goal will be achieved. In fact, since the museum's opening, thousands of Asian-art and antique devotees have been walking around like they've hit an educational jackpot...
...Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste removal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry), dumping drums of toxic sludge; and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash ("Let's rack up corpses," one says, "no use feeling depressed"). Above these scarred, drugged-out creatures are their bosses, wealthy mobsters who remain above...