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Saugus revokes license of nightclub

SAUGUS - Selectmen revoked the entertainment license of the Orchid nightclub indefinitely, after a series of violent events at the Route 1 dance club. The latest occurred about 2 a.m. yesterday when three men were wounded in a shooting at the club’s ...

From MATT CARROLL AND JOHN M. GUILFOIL, Boston Globe,  20 Sep 2009

Should pharma pay the NIH royalties?

Looking past 2010, when more than $10 billion in fresh federal research funds runs out, the new head of the NIH is hatching a plan to gain a predictable flow of money to back an enlarged commitment to the country's researchers. And one way that the NIH ...

From JOHN CARROLL, FiercePharma,  18 Aug 2009

Experts predict dramatic shortfall of swine flu vax

Thinking to reassure the public, U.S. health officials had said that they expected to have 120 million doses of swine flu vax on hand to start a huge national vaccination campaign in mid-October--just as a second wave of the pandemic is expected to hit. ...

From JOHN CARROLL, FiercePharma,  18 Aug 2009

Whistleblower Says FAA Ignored Warnings on Colgan Airplane Safety; President Pushing for "Paygo" Spending Plan; Accused Abortion Doctor Killer Speaks Out; First Guantanamo Detainee Brought to New York

JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: Crossing the top of the hour now. Thanks very much for being with us on the Most News in the Morning on this Wednesday. It's the 10th of June. Thanks very much for being with us. I'm John Roberts. KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR: And ...

From JOHN ROBERTS, KIRAN CHETRY, ALLAN CHERNOFF, JIM ACOSTA, CHRISTINE ROMANS, TED ROWLANDS, JASON CARROL, AirportBusiness.com,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: John Roberts,  Kiran Chetry,  Ted Rowlands

The message from GSMA Barcelona: fragmentation

The GSMA Mobile World Congress, which took place this week in Barcelona, is the world’s largest telecommunications trade conference. It is rumored that 50,000 attendees descended on this Catalonian city for the event, though that is matched by whispers ...

From JOHN CARROLL, ZDNet,  19 Feb 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Kevin Spacey,  Texas Instruments,  Toshiba,  Yahoo!

Death to booking.com (and Priceline)

I am traveling today to Barcelona to attend the GSM World conference. As Barcelona is a particularly nice city, I thought I’d bring my wife along, particularly as things will start to get a bit crazier this July (when my first child - a daughter, as I ...

From JOHN CARROLL, ZDNet,  13 Feb 2009
Related Topics: William Shatner

Don't give me special treatment

Debates continue in the US Congress over the size and shape of an economic stimulus intended, in true Keynesian fashion, to create demand for products where it is in short supply. The size of the stimulus will be nothing short of awe-inspiring, though ...

From JOHN CARROLL, ZDNet,  6 Feb 2009
Related Topics: World Trade Organization,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan

What is American?

It’s peculiar that such calls tend to come from politicians from states which lie the furthest it is possible to get from our nation’s borders. Equally odd is that such statements are typical of today’s crop of politicians from the party of Ronald ...

From JOHN CARROLL, ZDNet,  30 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  John Carroll (politician)

Hiatus till January

Not that I think crowds of angry people will descend on my West Hollywood apartment because of this, but I am going to be off until January.  As noted three weeks ago in my last post (I am a very bad blogger), a startup I co-founded recently received ...

From JOHN CARROLL, ZDNet,  17 Dec 2008

EU pharma industry braces for harsh competition report

An upcoming report from the EU's competition commissioner based on a long-running probe into pharma companies' business practices is expected to slam many of the world's leading pharma companies for slowing the introduction of inexpensive generics. And ...

From JOHN CARROLL, FiercePharma,  25 Nov 2008
Related Topics: AstraZeneca PLC,  GlaxoSmithKline Inc,  Pfizer Inc.,  Sanofi-Aventis

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