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...other countries. Patients in the U.S.--who account for roughly half the drug industry's annual global revenues of $364 billion--are howling, and they are getting heard in Congress. But so is Vasella, who employs 19,000 Americans and recently opened a $250 million research facility in Cambridge, Mass. He routinely meets with U.S. lawmakers and regulators. Among drug-company CEOs, he has taken the lead in giving a little on prices to avert sweeping new regulations...
...Development teams would test and refine them in hopes of winning regulatory approval. Finally, marketers would peddle the approved drugs to physicians. These steps were typically conducted in isolation, so developers would sometimes find out too late that a candidate drug had terrible side effects or could not be mass-produced economically. Or marketers would discover late in the process that there wasn't much demand for the new drug they would soon be asked to sell...
...trail through the tangle of websites. You Make It Web 2.0 is fueled by an outpouring of creativity from the people formerly known as consumers. From YouTube auteurs to bloggers to amateur photographers competing with the paparazzi, USERGENERATED CONTENT is revolutionizing the media landscape You Name It The sheer mass of information online -- 20 billion Web pages and counting -- should defy organization. Collective intelligence has risen to the challenge. With users tagging images, text and other forms of content, an organic sort of taxonomy has blossomed, appropriately called FOLKSONOMY You Work on It Why pay a professional when...
Charbonneau said yesterday that he is currently focused on the MEarth Project, which involves building an array of ground-based telescopes to detect potentially habitable planets. These telescopes will focus on rocky planets orbiting nearby low-mass stars that are cooler and dimmer than the Sun. The first few telescopes have already been built in Southern Arizona...
...when she saw Al Gore ’69’s “An Inconvenient Truth” over the summer. Perhaps the campus’s most venerable Prius owner is former University President Derek C. Bok, the political scientist who served a second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew G. Faust, owns a Honda Accord, though she says...