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Death by dilution: when fakes of a GlaxoSmithKline anti-malarial drug turned up in Africa, authorities assumed the drug giant would want to know. Instead, they learned about a huge, evil trade in fake drugs--and about an industry that doesn't want the truth to get out.
American Prospect, The, December, 2005 by Cockburn, Robert
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IN GRAHAM GREENE'S 1949 THRILLER CLASSIC, THE THIRD MAN, HARRY LIME--"the dirtiest racketeer who ever made a dirty living"--peddles diluted penicillin through the sewers of occupied Vienna. During the film's famous scene atop the city's Great Wheel, Harry's friend Holly Martins, played by Joseph Cotten, asks, "Have you ever visited the children's hospital? Have you ever seen any of your victims?"
"Victims?" replies Orson Welles as Harry, pointing to the tiny" figures moving far below them. "Would you really feel any pity if one of those ...
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