Nice spread in today's NYT on Clinton and his effort to help the people effected by the AIDS pandemic around the world, in particular Africa.
Opposite the page in which states that Clinton admits his administration took the side of pharmaceutical companies over countries trying to make or import cheaper AIDS medicine is a full-page Genentech.
(I circled the company's name with pink bubble #2. Pink Bubble #1 contains the pharmaceutical favoritism note and also a great quote from Clinton. How do you like my high-techiness?)
"I have never met anybody who spent all their time talking about everybody's motives who at the end of their life could talk about very many lives they had saved."
I would add that these people aren't particularly happy or fun to be around either.
Genentech's ad is a touching real-life letter from a San Francisco woman. Her husband died a couple of years ago. She was left to raise a young child on her own when she diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. Because of Genentech's clinical trial therapies, she feels "like one of the lucky ones." The letter has a picture insert of the woman and her daughter.
In one of the pictures on the opposite page is another mother laying on a bed in a hospital, cuddling her baby who is attached to an IV.
In business for life? A nice reminder that they are, in fact, a business.
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