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...drugs were a massive success. In 1987 analysts predicted Prozac could earn its parent, Eli Lilly & Co., up to $175 million a year by 1990. It blew past that target in 1989, earning $350 million - more than had been spent annually on all antidepressants put together just two years previously. By 1990, Prozac was the country's most prescribed antidepressant, with 650,000 scrips written or renewed each month. Annual sales soon topped $1 billion...
...Kenya from Somalia," Hogendoorn says. "The border is just a line in the sand - not to mention, they could sail a dhow down from Somalia to a Kenyan village on the coast. It would be extremely difficult for Kenya to defend against a terrorist attack on a soft target...
...badly designed. One of the fascinating things to me was going to visit Boeing's checklist factory, where they make over 100 checklists a year and design them in ways that pilots can actually use them in a time crush. They helped us design ours. We set a target that no step along the way would take more than 60 seconds and the whole process should be, in routine situations, under two minutes total. The Mayo Clinic adopted the checklist that we designed. And they actually reduced their operating time, because it helped the teams be more prepared...
...home - especially to poorer nations like Yemen (where unemployment hovers around 40%) - could allow them to attack again, especially if they were radicalized during their Guantánamo stay. And they maintain that sending such detainees to the Illinois prison - no matter how secure - will make it a tempting target for terrorists. Meanwhile, more than 560 detainees have cycled through Guantánamo and been sent to the custody of other governments...
Some people still can't look past his ethnicity. Everywhere he plays, Lin is the target of cruel taunts. "It's everything you can imagine," he says. "Racial slurs, racial jokes, all having to do with being Asian." Even at the Ivy League gyms? "I've heard it at most of the Ivies if not all of them," he says. Lin is reluctant to mention the specific nature of such insults, but according to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, another Ivy League player called him a C word that rhymes with ink during a game last season. On Dec. 23, during...