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The drug is Taxol, Bristol's brand name for paclitaxel, a trace compound found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree in the northwestern U.S. During the 1970s researchers for the U.S. government's National Cancer Institute discovered that paclitaxel stops the growth of some cancerous tumors.
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For example, a professor at the top-ranked Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the U.S., has found out an important fact for those deciding on the price of a consumer good.
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Arthur Goldberg, of Northwestern, was a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A. at Northwestern University that brought Bassoul to the U.S. After bouncing around the health care industry doing mergers and corporate planning for eight years, he did a stint in sales and marketing at Premark, which also made industrial cooking gear, before joining Middleby in 1996 as president of its Southbend division.
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Northwestern is one of nearly 10, 000 U.S. schools that are classified as in need of improvement.
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Qatar has also positioned itself as a bridge between East and West, successfully wooing not only the U.S. military's Central Command forward headquarters, but also top U.S. universities such as Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth to set up shop in the emirate.
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Last month, Chad Mirkin 's Northwestern spinoff Nanosphere entered into a development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group to use Nanosphere's proprietary biomolecular detection system (using gold nanoparticles) for detection of biological warfare agents like anthrax.
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In the northwestern city of Peshawar in 2008, gunmen shot and killed a U.S. aid worker as he drove to work.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) -- Five Syrians were killed during a U.S. missile strike on a bridge in northwestern Iraq on Monday.
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Some of the top research universities with ED are Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Rice, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Wake Forest and Washington U in St.
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