COVER STORY Drug Prices: What's Fair? How can we encourage research and still keep prices within reach...for Cipro and beyond? COVER IMAGE: Drug Prices: What's Fair? TABLE: The Forces That Move Drug Costs CHART: How Drug Spending Is Rising TABLE: Tomorrow's Blockbusters TABLE: Rx for Drug Costs Fifty Ways to Keep Your Patent INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Gaijin at the Gate Financier Tim Collins is so sure he knows how to fix Japan Inc. that he's betting billions on it COVER IMAGE: Gaijin at the Gate TABLE: Ripplewood's World TABLE: Eastward Ho! RESUME: Tim Collins BUSINESS WEEK SMALLBIZ
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Letter From Japan: A Mosaic in the Making
from page 12 of this issue
Cover Illustration by Joe Calviello/BW
Asian Cover by Tom Wagner/Corbis Saba
articles in the December 10, 2001 domestic edition previously published in international editions
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