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...FERTILITY CLINICS During in-vitro fertilization, clinics routinely fuse more than one egg with sperm. That way, if implanting a fertilized egg doesn't work the first time, they can try again. This practice has left thousands of unwanted embryos stored in clinic freezers. James Thomson, left, the first scientist to establish a human stem-cell line, used such embryos...
...According to forecaster/tracker Thomson Financial/First Call, about 730 companies have already warned that their results will be worse than expected, and that number is expected to top off at about 900 before it's all over. Which is a heck of a lot of companies, no doubt about it - but still less than the 816 at this point last quarter and 935 overall for Q1. Could it be there isn't as much bad news as before? That there's even some success stories sprinkled in? Could this be - drumroll, please - the earnings trough before things pick up again...
Juarez and its outskirts are dotted with enormous new plants, but these are not your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view...
...blocking the production of generic copies. That has stunned the industry into a price war in reverse: in one month the cost of AIDS therapies in the developing world has fallen by as much as 90%. "The industry has been cast as the villain in all this," says Philip Thomson, spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline. "That's definitely had an effect...
...nonsensical wordplay ("Once in a while and where and where around around is as sound and around"), Morris has created a heavenly playground full of beautiful saints who dance like angels. As always, he draws his main inspiration from the music. "It's so friendly!" Morris says of Thomson's score, a festively fractured reminiscence of the Sunday-school hymns of the composer's Missouri childhood. "It's not complicated, and it doesn't wear...