And one really does make sense

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Pfizer.  AstraZeneca.  Eli Lilly. Novartis.  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) .  And, now Bayer and Merck.

Bayer will be taking over the consumer care (and non-prescription drug) business of Merck.  For $ 14.2 billion, Bayer will be come the second largest provider of OTC (over-the-counter) products;’ second mostly because of the merger of Novartis and GSK that we discussed yesterday.  And, there’s another part of this deal- Bayer will co-develop a series of cardiovascular therapies (for which Merck will shell out about $ 2 billion).

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Happy Birthday

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It was still a teenager.  19 going on 20.  That was the first time I visited Israel.  I was there around the time of the the 6 Day War.  The first place I visited was Jerusalem.  And, my first destination in Jerusalem was the Old City of Jerusalem.   (You know, that was the “international City” that barred Jews from entry from 1948 until the time it became part of Israel.  Where the gravestones from the  major Jewish cemetery outside the walls were looted to finish the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel, then owned by King Hussein.)  It was my desire to walk up to what was then called the Wailing Wall (it is now known as the Western Wall).

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The old grey mare just…

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I lost an old friend the other day.  He was with me most of the past 45 years.

He traveled with me as I drove to and from the catering halls and research labs I frequented in the late 60’s and early 70’s.  He commuted with me between New York and Cambridge, moved with me to Michigan- and then traveled down to Virginia.  (I admit it- he never traveled with me on my thrice weekly commute to California.  I just thought of that now…)

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