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...Swiss violinist Helena Winkelman with guest pianist Anton Kernjak. The performance, sponsored by the Pro Musicis Foundation, includes pieces by Schubert, Lutoslawski, Kurtag, and Beethoven. Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 for students. Pickman Concert Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden...
...drug giants in recent years have been outpacing European pharmaceutical companies, once the world's most successful. In 1990 Europe had the largest market share for drug sales, while today America has 47% of the market, nearly double the European share. There's also a brain drain headed west - Swiss drugmaker Novartis recently moved its R and D headquarters from Basel to Boston because U.S. investments are now producing bigger returns. The current round of buying began last summer, when U.S. giant Pfizer offered $60 billion to purchase rival Pharmacia in a deal that will create the world's biggest...
...July cover story in TIME Global Business profiled the highly competitive, Harley-riding CEO of Novartis, Daniel Vasella, and his plans for continued expansion of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, despite the troubles facing the drug industry. Since then Vasella has led two big growth-enhancing initiatives. He and his scientists persuaded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reverse its previous rejection of Zelnorm, a potential blockbuster remedy for sufferers of irritable-bowel syndrome--a condition for which there are few other treatments. Vasella also paid $876 million to acquire Slovakian pharmaceutical company Lek, the maker of such generic drugs...
...cocaine dealers and Saddam Hussein's eldest son have all profited from illegal sales of RJR cigarettes--with the willing participation of the company, which reaped millions of dollars in illicit sales. The 149-page complaint names RJR executives who allegedly met with money launderers, and it lists the Swiss bank accounts used for payment...
...Japanese architect Shigeru Ban; a taxi deconstructed by Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul and fashioned into furniture; and a mobile made of pieces of trash?a Styrofoam takeout box, a plastic bag, netting that's used to protect fruit?whose dreamy shadows are projected onto a blue-tinged wall by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist...