Word: orphaning
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...football player who laments that his child has been afflicted with “artism,” the skits actually attack our assumptions about gender head-on with unflinching satire. For instance, the football star ends up solving his problem by drafting a free agent Russian orphan...
...COURTESY OF CAZA ALIANZA Jose as a young orphan (2nd row in the green-striped shirt) living at Caza Alianza in Antigua, Guatemala, taken when he was about...
...Guti?rrez was shot in the chest as his unit took heavy fire in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. Everyone believed he was 22. But his true age is part of a story of epic persistence that took him from Guatemala to Los Angeles, from the life of an orphan to the life of a Marine...
...After winning asylum, Guti?rrez shuffled between foster homes and was eventually placed with Marcelo and Nora Mosquera, themselves immigrants from Latin America. The Mosqueras, who have three biological children of their own, have raised 30 foster children. And so the Guatemalan orphan who had barely a family suddenly had a tribe of foster siblings. Still, he never forgot Engracia and the hardships she continued to live with in Guatemala. He would send her $20 or $30 whenever he could. Guti?rrez went to high school and community college, and dreamed of being an architect. But, on the advice of a foster...
...riskily, he steered Rebif through a contentious approval process in the U.S. that involved taking on an already authorized rival treatment by Biogen in a head-to-head clinical trial--and winning. Biogen had enjoyed a temporary monopoly in the U.S. for its Avonex product under the FDA's "orphan drug" program, meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases. Serono broke the monopoly, proving by trial that its drug was more effective. Bertarelli's priority today is to fill Serono's pipeline with new drugs so it isn't so dependent on a few products. To leverage...