REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.(BUSINESS)

A financial report on a publicly traded company with Capital Region operations, drawn from Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Nasdaq: REGN Headquarters: 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown; manufacturing plant at 81 Columbia Turnpike, East Greenbush Company founded: 1988 Activities: Develops -- and intends to commercialize -- products for the treatment of serious medical conditions including cancer, diseases of the eye, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, asthma and obesity. Employees: 709, including 275 in East Greenbush Performance: Regeneron's stock outperformed both the Nasdaq Pharmaceutical Stocks Index and the Nasdaq Stock Market Index over a five-year period ending Dec. 31. A $100 investment in Regeneron on Dec. 31, 1998, rose to $200 by year-end 2003. The same investment in the pharmaceuticals index increased to $190 but fell to $92 …

China Southern launches services to Baku and Singapore.

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China Southern Airlines (NYSE:ZNH) is further expanding its international route network with a new service to Baku and Singapore.

The airline said that its Hainan branch has launched a new service between Haikou and Singapore. China Southern Airlines flight CZ3097/3098 will be operated with a …

Crocodile Hunter's Widow Writes Book

For grieving widow Terri Irwin, writing a book about her life with "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was a painfully raw ordeal. But she says the outpouring of public grief that followed the iconic nature lover's death last year planted in her a sense of obligation to his millions of fans around the world.

"I felt kind of compelled to do something so that people could sit down and understand Steve better and where he came from and what we stood for and what we tried to achieve," the 43-year-old Oregon-born mother-of-two told The Associated Press at the family zoo in northeast Australia.

"I'd been so kind of self-absorbed with my own …

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THERE'S REGULAR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. THERE'S ROUTINE MAINTENANCE. AND THEN THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE, THIS BEING PRACTICED A BUHRKE INDUSTRIES (ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL), A TIER ONE METAL STAMPER/ASSEMBLER. EXPLAINS KEN STONE, MAINTENANCE MANAGER AT THE COMPANY, "WHEN WE EVOLVED INTO A SECOND SHIFT, THEN WENT THROUGH THE QS 9000 PROCESS, A LIGHT BULB WENT OFF. WE HAD THE IDEA TO DEVELOP A SCHEME WHEREIN ALL THE STAMPING PRESSES WOULD BE MAINTAINED ON A BASIS, WITH ALL OF THE DATA GOING TO BACK TO THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT. WE HAD BEEN DOING WEEKLY AND MONTHLY MAINTENANCE STRICTLY ALONG THE GUIDELINES SET BY THE PRESS MANUFACTURERS, REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG A PRESS HAD BEEN RUNNING …

IMCO awarded major contract.(THE BUZZ: Tips, rumors & miscellaneous pieces of business information)

Bellingham-based IMCO General Construction has been selected as the general contractor by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to widen SR 539 (Guide Meridian) in Whatcom County to five lanes, from Horton Road to Ten Mile Road. The contract is valued at more than $31 million.

IMCO's work on the SR 539 project will increase the capacity from two lanes of traffic to four, with a two-way turning lane in the middle.

Once completed, the five-mile stretch of road will include a turn lane, new lighting and three new traffic signals at the Smith, Axton and Laurel Road intersections, according to a press release. A total of ix water quality …

Indians deal Belliard to Cards.

Byline: Sheldon Ocker

CLEVELAND _ Ronnie Belliard didn't seem in any hurry to get to St. Louis after the Indians traded him to the Cardinals Sunday afternoon.

Asked if he was happy to be going, Belliard said, "I'm a baseball player; I was happy here, and I think I can be happy there. In baseball you can be here today and somewhere else tomorrow."

Belliard is making a big jump in the standings, from a fourth-place club that is more than 20 games out of first place to a team that leads the National League Central Division.

In return, the Tribe received utility infielder/outfielder Hector Luna, whom they had in their organization twice before. …

By-wire will be a gradual rollout

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While news about drive-- by-wire systems (also known as x-by-wire) continues to fill the industry journals, expectations have yet to meet reality. The current electric or hydroelectric systems, sometimes incorrectly defined as x-by-wire, are simple hybrids with some electric parts that assist the conventional mechanical system. True x-by-wire refers to electric systems that have no physical connection between controller and main system parts. While replacing all mechanical systems with electrical connections is the ultimate goal, it is not likely to happen any time soon. In Europe, automakers will adopt the technology incrementally with the first …