Word: lions
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...Skilling showed up in the lion's den because he thought he could run circles of deniability around Tauzin and his gang. He got in some convincingly righteous sparring with hopped-up committee members, and mostly blamed his apparent ignorance of anything rotten in the state of Enron on the difficult, highly delegatory task of running a large and complex international energy corporation. And when that didn't fly with the committee - and it surely didn't - Skilling merely pled more ignorance that Enron's house of cards was ever going to fall...
...lion?s share of the thanks for that should go to the New York Police Department, who have laid down a security cordon around the Waldorf-Astoria and other midtown hotels, and manned (or womaned) it, by and large, with great good humor. Demonstrators - followers of Falun Gong have been the most prominent - have been segregated across the street, squashed into a narrow area behind barricades. The main demonstration, on Saturday, went off remarkably quietly, as the marchers were kept well away from the delegates; I had no idea that the NYPD had so many police horses...
...While Bush and the Republicans have gained the lion's share of attention from Enron and Lay, they get at least a little cover from the company's campaign contributions to prominent Democrats, such as Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Enron and its top officials have hired the well-known Democratic lawyers Robert Bennett and David Boies. And Bob Rubin, the Democrats' high priest of economics and finance, was caught fishing-albeit tentatively by all accounts-for Treasury intervention on Enron's behalf...
Some biotechs, including LION Bioscience of Heidelberg, Germany; Gene Logic of Gaithersburg, Md.; and Compugen of Princeton, N.J., have been selling their expertise in bioinformatics to big drug companies. But they face heavyweight competition from the likes of Hitachi and IBM, hungry for a slice of a bioinformatics market that Frost & Sullivan predicts will grow fivefold, to $7 billion over the next five years...
...than doubled its life-sciences investments. Says the initiative's general manager, Carol Kovac: "Partnering with companies in proteomics and genomics is essential for our success." Big Blue has invested $10 million in MDS Proteomics, a subsidiary of MDS, based in Toronto, Canada, and recently announced a collaboration with LION. It is also building what will be the world's fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene, to work out the complex rules by which proteins assume their shapes...