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Some consider AstraZeneca's drug development pipeline to be less promising than those of some of its competitors.

HOW BIG?

AstraZeneca, valued at about $81 billion, is the smallest of the four big European drug makers.

It trails GlaxoSmithKline ($154 billion), Novartis ($131.4 billion) and Sanofi-Aventis ($124 billion).

By GARY HABERThe News Journal 03/26/2006 Call it the rule of the ocean: In that huge, briny pool out there, the bigger fish eventually swallow the smaller ones.

That maxim is especially true in the pharmaceutical industry, which hasn't seen many mergers it didn't find tasty.

Over the years, the industry has spawned blockbuster deals like the $76-billion merger of GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline ...

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Each case is different.

Alcohol is often involved, or it could be medication that changed a person's behavior or wasn't taken as prescribed.

Since the team was formed in March 2004, it has responded to more than 900 calls.

Berardini has been to as many as six in one shift.But it's a call EDPRT didn't receive March 3 that thrust the unit into the spotlight.

A Rochester police officer shot and killed Patricia Thompson, 54, in her southwest area home while responding to a domestic dispute.

The officer didn't know of her history of mental illness and shot her when she lunged at him with a knife.

Thompson's family members and critics of the Police Department have asked why lethal force was used and why the EDPRT team wasn't employed.The police response: The officer appeared to have been justified in firing his weapon, and there was no time to call an EDPRT officer.

Critics also have asked why the officers didn't know the address was the home of a mentally ill person previously contacted by police.Berardini explained the department's practice: It's rare to flag addresses from databases available in patrol cars' computers to identify previous contacts with emotionally disturbed persons.

Only a few addresses, including some group homes, are flagged.

"If everything relevant was flagged, there would not be many addresses we would go to without something mentioned, and it would drown out the system," Berardini said.

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And she's right.The lair of the Minotaur of Greek mythology has a counterpart here in the indoor maze of a very odd library.Vine has written a gripping psychological mystery novel that isn't even somewhat painful to read.

E-mail article Print article Subscribe Get e-mail alerts THE MINOTAUR by Barbara Vine.

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