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RECIPE FOR GROWTH Derided over a failed bid for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina served up an even tastier treat: a $25 billion merger — the industry's largest — with rival Compaq. Too bad that a bearish Wall Street quickly took one-fifth off the deal's value

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"It was a virus looking for a disease. What we found was a correlation with survival."
MICHAEL MANNS,
German scientist, on the discovery of the GB virus C that bolsters the immune system and helps fight HIV

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