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Drowsy Chaperone up for five Olivier theatre awards
Canadian export The Drowsy Chaperone is in the running for five awards, while bouncy musical Hairspray has a leading 11 nominations for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards. Nominations for the annual awards for the best of London theatre, opera and dance were announced Wednesday evening in England.Bob Martin, as Man in Chair in the Canadian hit The Drowsy Chaperone, has an Olivier nod for best actor in a musical for his role in the West End production. (Joan Marcus/Bryan-Brown) The Drowsy Chaperone, which played eight months in London last year, came from successful runs in Toronto and New York, where it won five Tony awards. It was nominated for Oliviers for best new musical, best actress for Summer Strallen and best actor for Bob Martin. Canadians Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Don McKellar and Martin, who played the lead role, created the show, an homage to 1920s musicals.
Novacta Receives 3.5 Million Pounds Strategic Translation Award From ...
Novacta Biosystems, a UK-based anti-infective therapeutics company, announces that the Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest medical research charity, has awarded it £3.5 million as part of the Trust's Strategic Translational Award programme. Novacta will use the award to progress development of a drug which, it is hoped, will help combat hospital-based Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) infections.
C. Difficile infections (CDIs) are a growing and serious problem and have, for example, been associated with twice as many deaths in UK hospitals last year as MRSA. Cases of C.difficile infections, which occur in the lower digestive tract, rose by 22 per cent in the past year and affected more than 15,500 people over 65 in the first quarter of 2007. New anti-infective drugs are needed to target C.difficile without depleting other beneficial bacteria in the gut.
Edmond bachelor on Cosmo list
Life as Josh Walters knows it is about to change. The 23-year-old Edmond middle-school teacher has been named one of the hottest 50 bachelors by Cosmopolitan magazine. Tuesday, his photo went worldwide on the magazine's Web site, complete with a personal "vote for me" video and a link for one-on-one e-mails. .
Isolagen Inc. Completes Injections Of Isolagen Therapy(TM) In Phase ...
Isolagen(TM), Inc. (Amex: ILE) announced that injections have been completed in the pivotal Phase III multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials evaluating the Isolagen Therapy(TM) for the treatment of nasolabial folds, or wrinkles (Studies IT-A-005 and IT-A-006). Subjects have advanced to the follow-up period of the study.
Isolagen also announced the completion of injections in the Phase II open label study designed to gather further safety and potential application information on the use of the Isolagen Therapy(TM) for the full face (Study IT-A-007). The subjects in this study also have advanced to the follow-up period.
"These are important clinical milestones to Isolagen, especially the advancement of our lead Phase III pivotal wrinkle study to the follow-up period of the trial," said Declan Daly, Chief Executive Officer of Isolagen, Inc.
WorldCom Whistle-blower Cynthia Cooper
We were running so many queries of the accounting system that we were starting to crash it. When did it come together for you?
Eventually we went door-to-door in the accounting department, working our way up the chain of command. When we finally confronted the controller, David Meyers, he confessed. His wife later told The Wall Street Journal that he had decided that if I came to him and confronted him directly he would tell me the truth. He also said he felt better that day than he had in years. How long was it after the MCI merger before people thought, "Uh-oh, this is a mistake"?
I would say that there was a consensus across the company that it was a mistake. First of all, the company had to take on a huge debt load to acquire MCI. And a significant portion of MCI's business came from residential sales.
Eddie Bauer store closing
Paris Hilton or just a bad imitation of Britney Spears? What would you do for a clothing budget if you only made minimum wage and had to pay all your own bills. You should be so lucky. Jealous of you, no, only apalled that someone could be that shallow because they have to be the best-dressed trendy person in their office. " .
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