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...secret? An aggressive expansion in the U.S. and an innovative approach to R. and D. Novartis has launched nine groundbreaking drugs since 2000--three times as many as its nearest competitor--and plans to launch 12 more by 2006. The company's relatively low debt and ample cash reserves have earned it a credit rating of AAA from Moody's. Morningstar analyst Todd Lebor praises the company's "excellent financial disclosure and conservative accounting" and notes that it has no unconsolidated debt. Pfizer's announcement last week that it will merge with Pharmacia sent several drugmakers looking for partners...
...public domain books. The company is also scanning copyrighted books, although not at Harvard, allowing them to be searched but not read in their entirety, but faces legal challenges from publishers. Google enables the reader to search these online tomes as well as locate them in the library nearest them. COSTS AND BENEFITSThe goal of all of these programs is open access, but Google isn’t a universal solution. Robert C. Darnton ’60, the current director of the Harvard University Library, says Google has its shortcomings. “I don’t think...
...chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
...message seems to have hit home with voters. The party has widened its lead since the poster campaign rolled out, according to the Gfs Research Institute, whose October 14 poll put the SVP ahead at 27.3%, compared with its nearest rival, the Social Democratic Party, at 21.7%. Of the 2,021 voters polled by the organization for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, 39.9% said they intended to vote for one of two center-right parties, and 10% said they would vote for the Greens. Ultimately Switzerland is likely to remain governed by four major parties, even if the SVP emerges victorious...
...Harvard territory, Leopards quarterback Mike DiPaola dropped back to pass on a third-and-one. Junior linebacker Glenn Dorris burst through the line and laid a big hit on DiPaola, who avoided a sack by making an ill-advised and wobbly throw that came up well short of the nearest receiver.“I started running after him, and as soon as I grabbed onto him, I knew he still had the ball, and then I kind of saw him throw it,” Dorris said. “I was thinking, ‘Dang, I didn?...