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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (727)	5/9/2007 6:43:06 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1564

MD - That is good news. Calling it a "cure" is premature, but finding a drug that shrinks tumors without being toxic to healthy cells would be a huge breakthrough. One of the stories says that it would cost 70 to 100 million dollars to do clinical trials, and that the Pharmaceutical companies aren't going to shell out for that because the drug is already used to treat metabolic disorders and is not patentable. So what's the big deal? 100 million dollars is nothing. Bill Gates or Steve Jobs could find that much in their sofa cushions. But seriously, the federal government could easily finance a study. If it is effective, such a treatment might save Medicare billions of dollars. - Allen

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (727)	5/14/2007 1:46:53 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

I'm going to research that for her and forward it to her thanks MD btw, you would think with all the damn money this government spends on BS, they could pick up the tab for further research for a promising cancer cure! waste like this - Unused Flight Tickets Totaling $100 Million A recent audit revealed that between 1997 and 2003, the Defense Department purchased and then left unused approximately 270,000 commercial airline tickets at a total cost of $100 million. Even worse, the Pentagon never bothered to get a refund for these fully refundable tickets. The GAO blamed a system that relied on department personnel to notify the travel office when purchased tickets went unused. Auditors also found 27,000 transactions between 2001 and 2002 in which the Pentagon paid twice for the same ticket. The department would purchase the ticket directly and then inexplicably reimburse the employee for the cost of the ticket. (In one case, an employee who allegedly made seven false claims for airline tickets professed not to have noticed that $9,700 was deposited into his/her account). These additional transactions cost taxpayers $8 million. but nooooo I'm crabby today major crabbing