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...Massachusetts senatorial race went high-tech--and highbrow--yesterday afternoon when candidates William F. Weld '66 and John F. Kerry spoke about issues facing the state's biotechnology industry at the Genetics Institute...
...presentation, coordinated by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBA), the candidates spoke for about half an hour each on issues ranging from government funding for biotechnology research to the importance of education to the state's high-tech industries...
Kerry pointed to his support of such high-tech friendly programs as Small Business Investment Research (SBIR), the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and export license reforms...
Recent high-tech start-ups have fared even worse. A Houston, Pennsylvania, software maker called ANSYS opened at $13 per share on June 20, only to finish the day at $12 per share. ANSYS closed Friday at $12.37. New medical companies have been hit just as hard. CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, a California dental-research firm, tried to lure investors last month by lowering the price of its IPO to $10 per share, well below the high of $15 originally projected. It didn't work: CollaGenex stumbled on its first day of trading, to $8.63 per share...
Times may be changing. Sheryl Swoopes, a star at Texas Tech, and now a guard/forward on the U.S. Olympic team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...