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...Pharma's top priority right now is to refill its drug pipeline; $29 billion worth of patents are set to expire worldwide in the next two years. The industry can do that cheaply in China, where salaries for American-educated scientists are often half those of their Western counterparts. "Of course money plays a role in the decision to do business there," says Lee Babiss, head of global research at Swiss giant Roche, which invested more than $50 million in China last year. "But it's more about getting new, diverse blood into our labs...
...next challenge was bringing the kit to market. The clock was ticking, particularly in Western European countries, where infected cows continued to crop up. Cashman approached George Adams, a serial entrepreneur who had recently resigned as head of the University of Toronto's Innovations Foundation. Amorfix Life Sciences is expected to introduce the diagnostic kit in Europe in 2007; Adams says the kit will generate $10 million in 2007 sales for the publicly held company...
...decided to take a course on the literature of the medieval world. Reading about Paul’s journey to the Third Heaven and the Apocalypse, I came to appreciate the Bible academically, from the history of its creation to its later influence on pretty much all of Western literature. However, absent was the deep spiritual and emotional connection with the good book that I had heard so much about from televangelists, Mel Gibson and the blurb on the back of my unbought Teen Bible at Wal-Mart. As fate would have it, an acquaintance, Caleb L. Weatherl...
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors looking for a blank slate. Ophelia the flapper! Macbeth the CEO! King Henry IV the Quarterback! Perhaps no playwright is more frequently a victim of hyper-ambitious, conceptual updates...
...been lurking in Western Europe for sometime now. In a way, it's encouraging, as the more time that passes without it mutating suggests it might not be able to mutate into a form that could cause a pandemic. But influenza is so unpredictable it's impossible to say for sure what will happen with this strain," he said...