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...regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved in protein production. When the discovery was eventually awarded a patent in 2002, Ariad and the three institutions sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Evista helps prevent and treat osteoperosis and Xigris treats people with severe sepsis. Royalties from that patent could be a windfall for Cambridge-based Ariad, which took a net operating loss of $55 million in 2005. The company’s stock surged 26 percent on news of the verdict yesterday, closing...
...charge of "liaison" relationships with foreign intelligence services - long the treasured turf of the CIA - which have historically produced much of the most important intelligence, according to a former senior CIA official. Negroponte, Hayden said, "is aggressively overseeing our relationships with foreign intelligence services to help detect and prevent attacks against ourselves and our friends and allies.... As the head of our intelligence community, he routinely meets with foreign intelligence leaders, and he has visited many of our major allies" - an activity that comes easily to Negroponte as a career diplomat and ambassador...
...system—which can cost $1,000 to $10,000 per campus—it wouldn’t be the first time that an instructor here had used the Internet to catch cheaters.In 2002, a visiting professor, Benjamin O. Fordham, used a somewhat similar program, Eve2, to prevent plagiarism in his course, Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy.”But that doesn’t mean the rest of Harvard is ready to follow Fordham’s lead,TurnItDownGordon Harvey, the associate director of expository writing and author of the citation guide...
...relationships with students are built on trust,” Kadison wrote in an e-mail. “We evaluate each situation on individual issues and symptoms.” Kadison adds that a history of drug abuse is a red flag that might prevent a doctor from prescribing...
...love of fair trade and free markets converge. Supporting fair trade coffee and hating taxes are not contradictory attitudes. When an individual buys fair trade, he voluntarily chooses to pay higher prices to support sustainable agriculture in small cooperatives in developing countries. When taxed, however, citizens are powerless to prevent corporate subsidies from being showered on American farmers, ceding their moral authority to the government...