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...major pharmaceutical companies have been at the forefront of the campaign to crack down on the problem. All have growing security divisions that track illegal medicine-trafficking and gather evidence to give to law-enforcement agencies to help them take action. Pfizer has also started experimenting with safer packaging. For example, all its Viagra blockbuster packs in the U.S. now have a radio-frequency-identification tag. Merck, meanwhile, is funding the distribution of minilabs to developing countries to improve detection of fake ingredients in drugs used to combat malaria, HIV and tuberculosis...
Driscoll praised Claiborne’s work in his current position in Mattapan, where she said he has “played a major part in decreasing crime and increasing quality of life for residents.” According to the Globe, homicides in the B-3 district, which includes Mattapan and North Dorchester, dropped from 24 in 2007 to 12 in 2008 under Claiborne’s command...
...much more accessible than most economists who write. A lot of bloggers tend to be pretty extreme, at least the one’s I’ve read. [But Mankiw] likes to balance both sides of the issue a lot,” said Stucki, who decided to major in Economics partly due to Mankiw’s influence...
...It’s hard to imagine 20th century literature without thinking of Updike as a major part of it,” said Leslie A. Morris, the curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library...
...although completing the Vendee Globe was a major success, Wilson admits to having reservations in the beginning...