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GlaxoSmithKline and Anacor Pharmaceuticals Form Alliance to Develop ...
PALO ALTO, Calif. and LONDON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Anacor Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline today announced that they have entered into a worldwide strategic alliance for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel medicines for viral and bacterial diseases. The collaboration provides GlaxoSmithKline access to Anacor's proprietary boron-based chemistry for use against selected targets. GlaxoSmithKline will participate in the alliance through its Infectious Diseases Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery (ID CEDD). Under the terms of the agreement, Anacor will grant GlaxoSmithKline options to select product candidates developed under the collaboration that are directed to up to four discovery targets and with the potential for at least eight product options.
Charleston man illustrates Lincoln's life with chainsaw-carved ...
The carver used a chainsaw for the body of each statue and an electric rotating bit for the finer details of the face.Many of Lincoln’s contemporaries described him as an emotionally sad-looking man near the end of his life, Monken said. The carver tried to convey this sadness in his depictions of Lincoln as president."The war obviously really must have taken its toll on him," Monken said.One of Monken’s favorite statues depicts Lincoln as a young man transitioning from a farmer to a lawyer. He has his right hand on his chin, left hand on his ax, and a law book in his lap.Oruwari said one of his favorites depicts Lincoln as a 6-year-old sitting on a block of wood by the fireplace with a book in his hands. He also likes the one of President Lincoln delivering his famed Gettysburg Address.Monken was a natural choice to create the statues because of his strong interest in Lincoln history, Oruwari said.
Gillian Whitehead
Gillian Whitehead was born in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1941. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959-62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from 1964-65, graduating MMus in 1966. That same year she attended a composition course given by Peter Maxwell Davies in Adelaide and in 1967 travelled to England to continue studying with him. She worked in London composing and copying music for two years and then with the assistance of a New Zealand Arts Council grant worked in Portugal and Italy from 1969-70. For the next seven years she continued freelance composing, principally based in the UK. From 1978-80 she was Composer in Residence for Northern Arts attached to Newcastle University (UK).
The 'Real' Coach Carter returns to Steel-High
JOHN C. WHITEHEAD,The Patriot-NewsDushawn Beecher, left, has a copy of his report card signed by the "Real" Coach Ken Carter Thursday. Carter challenged football player, Dushawn Beecher last April to improve his grades in all subjects. Coach Carter returned to make good on his pledge after Beecher's grades improved. .
Transcript: NPR Democratic Candidates' Debate
So we're going to get started with the debate, and let's stipulate in advance what I know many feel obliged to say. We're grateful that all of you are here, and we expect that you're grateful to the Iowa State Historical Museum, the people of Iowa, public radio in Iowa and NPR News. And we appreciate that and hope we can move on to the topic of Iran. The new National Intelligence Estimate contains a major change. It says that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003. Today President Bush said that nothing's changed in light of the report. He said the NIE, the National Intelligence Estimate, doesn't do anything to change his opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world. For all of you — and let's go left to right across the radio dial — do you agree with the president's assessment that Iran still poses a threat? And do you agree that the NIE's news shows that isolation and sanctions work? Senator Clinton.
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