By Michael M. PhillipsTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the economy has now recovered sufficiently for government to begin to make way for private business investment.Mr. Geithner’s comments on Sunday, which echo previous sentiments expressed by President Barack Obama, reflect a turning point in the government response to the worst economic…[Read more]

By Jacob GoldsteinPfizer is rummaging through the cabinets of its R&D unit, selling off experimental drugs that don’t fit with the company’s recent focus on fewer diseases. The plan is to sell to other companies about 100 experimental drugs that treat conditions such as obesity and high cholesterol, Bloomberg reports. The move is a logical…[Read more]

By Shirley S. WangAmgen may want to avoid the “carpet-bombing approach” to selling its new osteoporesis drug denosumab, but it is upping its sales firepower by partnering with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to market the therapy, the companies announced today.The biotech had said last year it was dropping the approach of fielding as many…[Read more]

By Ron WinslowDebunking a 140-year-old myth, European researchers have determined that long-bottled remains claimed to have been of Joan of Arc are actually those of an Egyptian mummy entombed several centuries before the French heroine was burned at the stake in 1431.The story of how Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at Raymond Poincaré…[Read more]

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AN ABUNDANCE of titanium ore,nike tenisky, in concentrations up to 10 times greater than on Earth, has been revealed in a new map of the moon, a finding that could one day lead to a lunar mining colony, astronomers say. The discovery was made after a camera aboard the US Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter swept the surface of the moon,…[Read more]

By Janet HookThe hunt to fill one of the toughest political jobs in Washington is over. Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash) speaks to the media after a Democratic Caucus meeting Tuesday. Ms. Murray will head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2012 election cycle. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Sen. Patty Murray (D.,Wash.), fresh off…[Read more]

No need for defence … Gabe Watson celebrates with his family after his acquittal. Prosecutors cannot appeal and Mr Watson will not face any more trials. Photo: Reuters LOS ANGELES: Alabama’s top prosecutor says he is sick to his stomach that a judge let Gabe Watson walk out of court a free man. In a…[Read more]

Yukiya Amano … head of the agency. Photo: HERWIG PRAMMER LONDON: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the growing Iranian crisis,nike shox sko, has been accused by several former senior officials of pro-Western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence…[Read more]

477-for-one … a Palestinian prisoner gestures from a bus. Photo: Reuters JERUSALEM: As convoys of prison trucks transported 477 Palestinian inmates from jails across Israel to two prisons in preparation for their release today, the country’s High Court began hearing a challenge to the deal that will free…[Read more]