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...antibody has been proven to disable the virus in a Petri dish and in unpublished animal studies, said Marasco, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School...
Although the strength for the Harvard women will be its middle- and long-distance running—proven by the eight freshmen and sophomores who competed in the 800m race—the field team continues to score valuable points...
...companies are backed by some serious muscle. The FDA, charged with assuring the safety of the nation's prescription drugs, has sided with the industry, coming down hard on the Canadians. "The drug-safety laws that Congress has charged FDA to enforce require that drugs be proven to be safe and effective to be legal," says commissioner Mark McClellan. "While FDA will continue to do all it can to make safe and affordable drugs available, we are also committed to enforcing the law against those ... [who] import illegal, unapproved and potentially risky medicines...
...INDICATORS Oil Under Fire U.S. lawyers filed suit against Royal Dutch/Shell after the Anglo-Dutch oil group slashed its proven reserves estimate by 20% last month. And a judge in Alaska ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $6.75 billion in damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...
...that put you off. In the early stages of a bull market, the most speculative stocks--in this case Internet, telecom and other techs that were left for dead in 2002--often get the biggest bounce. But in time, investors migrate to the stocks of proven companies that have been out of favor but are certain to benefit from an ongoing recovery...