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...father, Toby escapes Metro City and lands on the grungy surface of earth, where children are enslaved by the cheerfully malicious Ham Egg (Nathan Lane), and an underclass of humans and robots are forced into gladiatorial slam downs. Can Toby survive this environment, save his new friends, return to Metro City and win his father's love? (Spoiler alert: Yes, four times...
Fred Ho ’79 was skeptical when he got a Voicemail from John Lithgow ‘67 asking him to call back. “I wasn’t going to return it because I thought it was a robocall,” he explained. But the message was indeed intended for Ho, the 2009 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal, honoring achievement in the arts and contribution to the public good...
...return on that investment has been considerable, both in the House and in the Senate. "We've done very well," says lobbyist Jim Greenwood, a former Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania who was a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and now heads the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). "We carried a majority of the Democrats and a majority of the Republicans in each of the committees, and by very clear margins...
...Most small biologics companies are still years away from seeing their first profits in this high-risk, high-return business. Their trade association, BIO, says that in the past 11 months, at least 40 of them have cut back or eliminated drug-development programs. The venture capitalists who invest in them "aren't looking to cure Parkinson's disease as much as they are looking for a return on their investments," says Greenwood. "They're just as happy to put their money into the next iPod." But increasingly, the big players in the pharmaceutical industry are moving into the biologics...
...problems. In this era of globalization what one government does in one corner of the world can have a knock-off effect on economies in another corner. For example, countries that raise interest rates ahead of others could end up attracting money from foreign investors seeking a higher return, potentially draining funds away from economies that are still badly in need of investment. Or if too many governments turn off the stimulus tap too quickly, global demand could fall sharply. "An unruly rush to the exits is no better in a global financial crisis than in a crowded theater," wrote...