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...broke down and cried." Open-minded and unafraid to criticize West Point, Cadet Captain Lissa Young is hardly a military martinet. Yet old grads will not be surprised to learn that when Young takes her place in the Long Gray Line on Saturdays, she too sometimes has to swallow back tears of pride. --By Evan Thomas
Some drug companies have decided that the best way to join the business is to swallow biotech firms whole. Eli Lilly announced in September that it would pay $300 million for San Diego-based Hybritech, one of the leaders in the development of monoclonal antibodies, which are proteins that could potentially help diagnose and conquer diseases like cancer. Last week Bristol-Myers said it would buy Seattle's Genetic Systems, another specialist in monoclonal antibodies, for $260 million...
...unhappy with science, but as I swallow daily doses of electrons and orbitals and arrow-pushing, I try to fill my schedule with Shakespeare and Sophocles and even Spielberg for a little balance. At this point, I’ve taken more mediocre “exploratory” classes than I’d care to count, and I still haven’t found the path to my passion...
While a second Ivy loss is a tough pill for the Crimson players to swallow, they have little time to dwell on it, as Harvard travels to Princeton this Saturday to take on the Tigers...
When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...