"I couldn't have noticed the car any earlier - it appeared all of a sudden and I only saw it for a split second, " he said.

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Eric Topol, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and one of the most vocal critics of Bextra and Vioxx, says that he saw the FDA panel split mostly between arthritis doctors and others.

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Many of these companies split their stock and all of them saw significant share price erosion as tech stocks crashed from the peaks.

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