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Mullah Omar and bin Laden are animated by a vision. They really do believe--or perhaps did believe--that their destiny was to unite all the Muslim lands from the Pyrenees to the Philippines and re-establish the original caliphate of a millennium ago. Omar took the sacred robe, attributed to Muhammad and locked away for more than 60 years, and triumphantly donned it in public as if to declare his succession to the Prophet's earthly rule. (Osama harbored similar fantasies about himself, although he fed Omar's, as a form of flattery and enticement...
...Millennium Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass., has been a step ahead of most competitors. It announced on Dec. 6 the acquisition of COR Therapeutics of South San Francisco, Calif., for a stock swap worth $2 billion--the largest in biotech history and Millennium's fourth acquisition in as many years. That was just the latest in a series of mergers that have changed the face of the industry. Last month Celera Genomics, once the quintessential genetic information-services company, paid $174 million for Axys Pharmaceuticals of South San Francisco, a master designer of drugs. Another major information-services firm, Incyte Genomics...
...their sales are to grow at an 8% rate, estimates the consultancy Accenture. By 2010 that will mean producing six new drugs a year. Most companies today grind out just one or two a year. "Productivity is the No. 1 issue going forward in the pharmaceutical industry," says Millennium CEO Mark Levin...
...proteomics involves baker's yeast. Millennium uses mass spectroscopy--a way of producing unique signatures of proteins by tearing them apart and weighing the fragments--to detect drug targets rapidly. Its technology has won the company strong alliances with traditional drug firms, including a $450 million anti-inflammatory drug-development alliance with Aventis and a $465 million research agreement with Bayer. Millennium also has a $250 million partnership with Abbott Laboratories focused on metabolic diseases. Last month the pair announced that they were beginning clinical trials on a candidate drug against obesity...
...year 2001 - the first in the 21st century, according to millennium sticklers - did have 365 days. Just as the tragedy prompted incredible acts of heroism and charity, so too were the cataclysmic events in the U.S. partially counterbalanced by humanity's usual triumphs and pratfalls. Two great skyscrapers are gone, but other great buildings were erected, such as Santiago Calatrava's winglike art museum in Milwaukee, a celebration of light, beauty and space. Author J.K. Rowling's wizards came to life on the screen and people flocked to theaters for a little levitation. A 15-year-old boy from Nepal...