[upchuck]

Medtronic: big time NPR sponsor.

How ironic: “... the company plans to hire 1,500 workers over the next 11 months. Many of the new hires will work in faster-growing markets overseas...”

[okkev68]

Wasn’t aware of that. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a choice in ICD brands when I had to have one implanted for a genetic condition.

Seeing what the two I have gone through cost, I don’t know how they can be struggling financially. $75K a piece, for what is nothing more than a cell phone. Most of it is battery.

[Cowman]

I was working at a contract lab in 2008 and we could tell how our business would be when the election polls came out. If Obama was up our business would slow down, If he was down our business would pick up.

The one thing the Progressives refuse to believe is that research is a venture capital driven enterprise and if the possibility of profit is removed there will be no money going to research.