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...August, Ptashne resigned in August from his position at Harvard to become the Ludwig professor of molecular biology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He moved his Harvard laboratory to New York as well...
Knowles first came to Harvard in 1973 to hold the Sloan visiting professorship. After he returned to England, Harvard's Chemistry Department offered him a tenured appointment, and the Knowles family moved to Cambridge the following year...
...field of medicine is the controversy more intense than in the treatment of children. Dr. Kathleen Foley, head of the pain service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, remembers an adolescent who was terminally ill. "The father didn't want his son on morphine because he was afraid the boy would become an addict," Foley recalls. In his grief over the imminent loss of his son, it seems, the father failed to see the absurdity of worrying about long-term addiction in a child who is dying in pain...
...wave of new vehicles this year reflects the company's efforts to reposition or reclaim many of GM's 49 car and truck brands by updating Sloan's book of marketing. Sloan demanded distinctly different styles for almost every demographic position and taste, a strategy that eventually gave way to identical cars bearing different nameplates. But segmentation is back in vogue, and for GM that means re-emphasizing traditional middle-American, mainstream strengths at Chevrolet while almost totally overhauling the customer base and appeal at Oldsmobile. Image makers at Olds are seeking to shed the stodgy, budget-priced profile that...
...going to buy another Chevrolet or any GM product. It's time to bring them back into the fold. We need to launch these products, put them out there and let the customer decide. This is put-up or shut-up time." Fighting words, Mr. Middlebrook. But as Alfred Sloan might also urge on his new generation at Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac and Chevy: There is still much to do, and little time left...