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...issue has long been a preoccupation of major pharmaceutical companies, which lose as much as $75 billion in business every year to counterfeit-drug makers, according to WHO estimates. In 2002, the industry set up a Washington-based agency called the Pharmaceutical Security Industry, run by Thomas Kubic, a former FBI deputy assistant director, to try to tackle the problem. And four years later, the WHO launched an international task force dedicated to the issue. But so far, such efforts have merely highlighted the growing trade. The Pharmaceutical Security Industry tracked more than 1,800 incidents of drug-counterfeiting around...
...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...