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...Rituxan for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma each generate more than $1 billion in annual sales, and both companies are solidly profitable. Yet "the combination will create more value than either could as separate entities," says William Rastetter, ceo of IDEC. That's why a wave of mergers could sweep the industry. There are only about three dozen biotech firms that regularly make money today, but that number could triple by 2007, creating more attractive merger candidates, says Viren Mehta, principal at Mehta Partners, a global health-care investment group. Few of them, however, are outside the U.S., and Europe...
...Good Bye Chunky Rice." An allegorical fantasy about lost friendships that featured cute talking animals and oddball characters, fans of "Chunky Rice" will be surprised at the change in Thompson's approach. No longer allegorical, "Blankets" is grounded in autobiographical reality. Yet "Blankets" has the thematic sophistication, emotional sweep and beauty of (visual) language that mark the best novels of any kind...
Queen said that Yard Operations has made a complete sweep of the Yard dorms to ensure that all first-floor windows will lock at six inches, rather than opening fully. Unlike upperclass Houses, Yard dorms lack iron grates on their windows...
John Harvard’s last inspection by CCIS was May 29. The inspector who conducted the sweep said most major violations had been addressed and the remaining ones were scheduled for remedy in early June. Vonflatern said each of the pending ones had since been taken care...
...easy to cast President Bush's Africa tour this week as little more than a PR exercise. The President will be dispensing gifts on his five-day sweep through Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria, - financial aid, money to fight AIDS and trade agreements to support good governance - that may help soften his Administration's negative international image. He may even be poised to commit troops to Liberia to help prevent yet another catastrophic African fratricide, a substantial expansion of military humanitarian peacekeeping of the kind for which he had once sharply criticized his predecessor. But while AIDS, trade...