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What Genentech has done is to develop the first insulin drug that is made with a synthetic duplicate of human genes. Called Humulin, it differs from insulin products now on the market, all of which are made from cells extracted from animals, particularly cattle. Humulin can be used to treat the approximately 8% of the world's 70 million diabetics (including 10.3 million in the U.S.) who are allergic to the animal product and have previously had to seek more complex treatments with other drugs like steroids...
...testing, one of the quickest approvals in the agency's history. Genentech President Robert Swanson said last week that his company expects to market a number of other new products in the next few years, including an agent that dissolves blood clots and could be useful in treating heart patients, and a human growth hormone that has successfully been tested for more than a year and could be available within twelve months to treat children afflicted with dwarfism...
...ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit of "do it, fix it, try it." They insist on top quality in their products. They solicit their employees' ideas and "treat them like adults," allowing talented people "long tethers" for experimenting. To uncover these characteristics, the authors spent considerable time at each company. Said Waterman: "We didn't talk just to top management. We talked with ex-employees and people down the line...
...year in addition to eating their annual treat of bloody ribs and raw meat to honor Packer's memory, the students had a human sandwich. He added, "they rolled out a girls in a bikini who was inside a hero bun, covered with mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard...
...HISTORIANS WHO MAKE a habit of ranking American Presidents are not going to treat Jimmy Carter well. Under the Georgian's stewardship, the U.S. economy went to pot, the nation's self esteem was punctured by repeated humiliations abroad, and--for the first time since George Washington romped on General Cornwallis at Yorktown--the world laughed at America...