| Science Tough Roads Loom Ahead for U.S. Pharmaceutical Giants
The reason biotech firms are popular purchases for pharmaceutical giants is that there is currently no U.S. regulatory pathway for generic biotech drugs, effectively allowing biotech drug inventors to sell a brand only product indefinitely until new legislation is mandated. Many pharmaceutical companies are cutting staff to maintain profits with companies like Eli Lilly & Co announcing it will cut 10% of its workforce and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announcing it will cut about 4300 jobs and close 27 manufacturing facilities. Some drug makers are also looking to outsource the manufacture of their medications overseas where the costs are much lower. Such costs saving measures are unlikely to mean lower drug prices for U.S. consumers where the brunt of the cost of development of a medication is made back by drug makers.
Limbaugh defended Cunningham's use of Obama's middle name
Summary: On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended Bill Cunningham's comments at a rally for Sen. John McCain in which Cunningham repeatedly referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama." Limbaugh reacted to the incident, saying, "Now, may I ask a simple question? Is that his name? It is. So why can't it be used?" On the February 26 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh defended comments made by Cincinnati radio talk-show host Bill Cunningham at a rally for Sen. John McCain in which Cunningham repeatedly referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama." McCain subsequently denounced Cunningham's comments. Limbaugh reacted to the incident, saying, "Now, may I ask a simple question? Is that his [Obama's] name? It is. So why can't it be used?" He said: "[W]hat if the Democrats start talking about John Sidney McCain? Is somebody going to say, 'We're not going to tolerate that.
U.S. dollar nears 3-year low against yen
The Morgan Stanley Capital International Asia Pacific index slipped 1.2 percent. Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 2.3 percent. Most of the region's stock benchmarks fell. The S&P/ASX 200 index in Australia retreated 1.4 percent to complete its fourth monthly slump, the longest losing streak since 1992.
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Researchers map China’s underground cybercrime economy
Researchers from Peking University in Beijing and the University of Mannheim in Germany released a paper this week that aims to map the underground cybercrime economy in China. The paper concludes that 1.49 percent of the 145,000 most popular sites in China "contain some kind of malicious content." While the Internet boom in China is impressive, the researchers note that "there is also the other side of the coin: targeting the virtual assets owned by the normal Chinese Internet users, malicious attackers, so called blackhats, discover the Web as a new venue for making money by exploiting innocent users." The researchers outline the most common attack: A common theme is to inject malicious code into a bought or cracked website. The injected code exploits an unpatched client-side vulnerability within the visiting web-browser or related application.
Three weeks until it begins anew
I honestly believe that Kelly Johnson and Escobar are going to be good table setters and that Mccann and Francoeur are going to blossom into big stars. I also expect Chipper Jones to play at least 140 games and have a monster year with Texeira and him having runners on base all year long. Should be fun, can't wait .
Prices rise on four fronts
A friend of mine from the UK, says that the Uk has the title Rip off Britain, yet food, cars, houses and general good including computers, and all other electrical goods are cheaper than Australia. So why is this? Greed. You hear that stores increase value by up to 300%, why this rip off. Petrol in some parts of Brisbane are higher than Sydney. House prices in Brisbane are over valued by at least 100,000 dollars and yet Real Estate agents keep on ripping us off. Healh insurance going up, petrol rises and greed greed greed. Banks in Australia and New Zealand are the onlt first world countries who charge ATM fees. Posted by: Colin of Rip Off Brisbane 7:14am March 07, 2008 Comment 50 of 206 .
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