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...growing pains in the global pharmaceutical sector? For Novartis, it's generic: the Swiss firm last week swallowed Germany's Hexal and America's Eon Labs for $8.4 billion, forging them into its existing Sandoz unit to create the world's largest manufacturer of off-patent, copycat drugs. A slide in blockbuster drug approvals in recent years - combined with the expiration of patents protecting a wave of branded drugs introduced in the '80s - has helped make generics big business. Government encouragement of the sector means off-patent drugs account for more than half of the U.K. and U.S. markets...
...slide had officially begun...
WHAT'S SCARY IS THE EVANGELICALS' blatant attack on the separation of church and state, a concept that has long protected all U.S. citizens. The battle between the forces of enlightenment and those of religious fundamentalism will determine whether we slide back into the shadowed past when religion and the state were one. Our children are depending on us to preserve their civil liberties and prevent them from having to grow up under a Christian version of the Taliban...
...home, only people I loved scattered around the country. After all, home is not a location, a set of four walls covered by a shingled roof. Home is a feeling, a magnetic attraction to what makes one feel safe. I found myself flying twice a month to Providence to slide into the arms of my girlfriend; it was there alone that life felt right. Oberlin never got better, and I was ecstatic when Harvard offered me a spring transfer my sophomore year...
...Bush won re-election by a very slim margin. No great performance there. And the President is by no means a revolutionary. He is responsible for invading a country under false pretenses, clamping down on personal freedoms at home, conducting a reckless fiscal policy and letting the dollar slide. It's an insult to the word revolutionary to apply it to Bush. Frank M. Wiesebron Paris