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...these tiny centipedes (about 0.4 in. long) were retrieved from samples of leaf litter as part of a biological dragnet conducted in 1998 for the Central Park Conservancy by researchers Liz Johnson and Kefyn Catley of the American Museum of Natural History. Their mission: to assess the health of the park's somewhat trampled woodland ecosystem in order to better preserve it. The creatures they collected were sorted and sent to various taxonomists for positive ID, which is how this one ended up in the hands of Richard Hoffman, curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History...
First Aid Quick Stop Gauze Pads Johnson & Johnson's sterile gauze pads ($4.50 for six), treated with the clotting agent calcium alginate, are designed to stop bleeding twice as fast as ordinary gauze...
Shareholders are taking action on their own: yanking money from any company showing even a hint of trouble. The latest black-and-blue chip? The respected drug giant Johnson & Johnson, whose stock fell 16% following a report that the company was under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department over alleged manufacturing improprieties in Puerto Rico. The company denied any wrongdoing, but the market did not care. J&J's drop contributed 55 points to the Dow's Friday freak-out, and the company joins Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb (which face sales-accounting questions...
That invention, in 1987, made Kok a wealthy man at age 42. But it only whetted his appetite. He has since changed the economics of producing everything from DVDs to disposable contact lenses and solar-energy cells. His customers include Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, Warner Music and--sweetest of all--his old employer, Philips. "This is a new type of Industrial Revolution--we are killing expensive clean rooms," says Kok, CEO of OTB-Group, with offices in Eindhoven, Hong Kong and Irvine, Calif...
After Kok's lucrative success in slashing the production cost of CDs, he was asked by Johnson & Johnson to find similar savings in the mass production of its Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator...