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...that those teenagers who do have sex after they've taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who'd never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit family planning research organization. "While there is good news in this study showing that association with abstinence groups does have a strong effect on some teenagers, there is certainly no reason to think that an abstinence pledge is all one needs to help adolescents deal with their sexuality and sexual...
...thrust of the plan is rather odious from a free-marketeers' perspective. Canada employs socialized medicine to provide U.S.-made medicines at lower prices. America's free-market system, which makes drug companies (gasp!) profitable, also motivates them to develop the blockbuster drugs that Americans are so sick of paying market prices for. The plan would try for the best of both worlds, using Canada's socialized medicine as an end-run around U.S. pricing - and screwing U.S. drug-companies out of their profit margins in the process...
...weekend, the season's traditional apex. And this time around, the discounting has already been set in motion by a season of relative slump. So bargains should be plentiful - along with bargain-hunters, for whom that ill-fitting plaid sweater is the perfect excuse to remedy Christmas gift oversights. Profit margins, however, will be slim...
...INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as chairman of the board), it claims credit for identifying many of the human genes used in research today. TIGR (pronounced Tiger) now concentrates on microbial and plant genomic research, the results of which it publishes free on its website: www.tigr.org...
...measure of success, of course, is whether AOL Time Warner can meet the stratospheric financial goals Case and Levin set a year ago, when they promised Wall Street that in 2001 the company's operating profit would grow by 30%, to $11 billion. Despite the Internet downturn, AOL's growth this year is still an impressive 23% (the company is adding about 1 million subscribers every six weeks). But Time Warner's growth is beginning to slow. The movie and music businesses are troubled. And if economic doldrums hit next year, ad revenues are likely to take a hit. "They...