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Sharon’s sudden stroke changed everything in Israel. No one knows what will happen next. Many of us have come to trust Sharon, even though we never fully understood what his precise plans were. Many of us felt that, somehow, he was going to pull off something big. But what exactly, and on what terms, remained in his head. Now, perhaps, we will never know. We are left leaderless...
...weekly show and owns satellite radio rights to Major League Baseball. Neither company has earned a dime in profits- both forecast that they?ll break even within a year or two. In fact, what really separates them is Stern, whose $500 million deal with Sirius is either a stroke of programming genius or a colossal waste of money-the biggest gamble on an entertainer in any field, be it film, television, sports or radio...
...companies that make their painkilling drugs. The once high-flying anti-inflammatories known as cox-2 inhibitors nearly crashed and burned in September 2004, when Merck's popular Vioxx was pulled from the market after a study revealed it could raise the risk of heart attack and stroke. A competitor made by Pfizer, Bextra, was yanked some months later, leaving only Pfizer's Celebrex behind-and a new, required safety warning hasn't exactly done wonders for that drug's appeal. Celebrex sales are off more than 40% for the first nine months of this year, and Pfizer is also...
...settle the cox-2 safety question once and for all. Working with cardiologist Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, Pfizer has initiated a massive $100 million, four-year trial that will test the drug on 20,000 arthritis patients who are already at high risk for heart attack or stroke to determine what risk, if any, Celebrex actually poses...
...TIME: You had no idea? LEE: No idea at all. It was a stroke of good fortune. Our intelligence had under surveillance a few religious types [in Singapore]. One of them left for Karachi and went on to Afghanistan, soon after the country was bombed by the Americans [in late 2001]. He was captured by the [anti-Taliban] Northern Alliance. He was of Pakistani descent. So we found that this wasn't just a religious study group. If that fella had not gone off to Karachi to fight with the Taliban, we would have been hit with seven truck bombs...