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...consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave IBM the people and contacts to turbocharge its services business, and has paid $2 billion for Rational Software, which provided new software-development tools. He agreed to sell IBM's money-losing hard-drive business to Hitachi. And he's still working his magic on clients: J.P. Morgan Chase just agreed to pay IBM $5 billion over seven years to take over much of the financial giant's elaborate IT operations...
...couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac. According to Dr. Bruce Cohen of Harvard's McLean Hospital, we're on the cusp of a new era in treatment as the search for a single magic pill for depression gives way to a broad spectrum of therapies...
...that CpG will provide humans with the same protection it affords mice, and that the drug is an improvement on existing vaccines. Jean-Paul Levy, head of Medical and Public Health at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, is skeptical. Levy doubts CpG's ability to work alone as a magic bullet against a range of pathogens. Because CpG introduces a nonspecific stimulation of the immune system, Levy feels it has little chance to offer adequate protection. "CpG could end up being as efficient as lighting candles in church," he says. According to Titball, one drawback to the CpG nose spray...
...Once I explain Herakles to refugees, they are curious, but Peter does all the magic,” she says. “No one has said no. He’s infected them with belief in the project...
...less an instrument than a symbolic weapon - an ax or a machine gun aimed at the complacent pop culture of the 50s. Performing his pansexual rite to a heavy bass line, Elvis set the primal image for rock: a man and his guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. He also established the androgyny of the male star. Who needed girl singers, when a guy could provide his own sexual menace, long hair, coquetry and falsetto singing...