Hence his haste, evident again this week in a decision to call for a demonstration against the budget in Rome on December 2nd.

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The argument goes that even though Vertex is going to sell a ton of telaprevir over the next few years, sales could crater when even newer drugs hit the market and completely change things again--hence the excitement about both Zymogenetics and Idenix.

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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

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