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...real clinical benefits have been slow to materialize, however, that has not stopped large pharmaceutical firms from buying up the gene-therapy concerns that seem to show the most promise. "Many, many companies have scrambled to get into the race," notes Ed Hurwitz, an analyst for Robertson, Stephens & Co. The list of recent mergers, as Hurwitz ticks them off, reads like a Who's Who of biotechnology: "Sandoz buys Genetics Institute. Chiron buys Viagene. Bristol Myers makes a big investment in Somatix. Merck makes a big investment in Vical. Rhone-Poulenc invests in Applied Immune Sciences and several other gene...
...moderate, above-politics President Powell to another four years of President Clinton. That is why Republican Brahmins are busy making wonderfully subtle distinctions about Powell's support for affirmative action--an issue they formerly saw in stark, absolutist terms. It is why even Ralph Reed, front man for Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, is making cautiously friendly noises about a man who says brazenly that he is "pro-choice" on abortion...
America's liberal democracy has always been about majority rule, but within a framework that guarantees the rights of the minority. Proponents of prayer in school forget about the latter. Pat Robertson claims, "Those men and women who founded this land made a solemn covenant that they would be the people of God and that this would be a Christian nation...
However, if Robertson really looked at the lessons of the past, he would recognize what every grade schooler is taught: that the earliest Americans often came to this land to escape religious persecution. Our founders, from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, enshrined the principles of a secular state into our Constitution. Indeed, it was Jefferson who first discussed the "wall of separation" between church and state...
...plan a career in law, four in medicine. Many plan to teach. Miss Massachusetts, a junior at Harvard, lists as her ambition "U.S. Senator." Four would make a mark in broadcast journalism. Miss Illinois has an edge here; she looks like a young Diane Sawyer. And Pat Robertson, take note: Miss North Dakota lists her ambition as "news anchor for Christian network...