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He had never been wilier nor more alert . Sherrill described him as a soulmate who sparked a youthful exuberance her mother had n't exhibited while raising the family alone.Carol Ernst contends Vioxx caused his death in the first of more than 4,200 Vioxx-related state and federal lawsuits across the country to go before a jury.Vioxx-maker Merck & Co. pulled the drug from the market last September when a study showed it could double risk of heart attack or stroke if taken for 18 months or longer . As if a cold slow billow ha broken over him , he came to to find that he was lying in his bed , that the mist and horror that had for so long enwrapped him had departed , that he was Paul Oleron , and that he was sick , naked , helpless , and unutterably abandoned and alone . Jurors do n't have to pinpoint Vioxx as the sole cause to give an affirmative answer.If one or more garners a " yes , " jurors proceed to the remaining three questions involving financial damages . Our collective aim will be to arrive at an understanding of how the history of the novel has in many ways been the history of debates about the novel - - about whether novels were morally uplifting or socially threatening or both , about whether novels were art or entertainment or both , about what kinds of truths novels could tell about what kinds of subjects , and about whether , and on what terms , novels could properly claim to participate in the social and philosophical debates of their day . Merck said its appeals will include claims that the judge erred by allowing testimony from unqualified experts and the undisclosed witness.The federal case may be Merck 's best shot at an early win , and the company desperately needs a victory if it does n't want to be pressured into settling cases en masse , experts said . ANGLETON , Texas ( AP ) Deliberations await jurors who have heard more than a month of often complex testimony about Merck & Co. ' s painkiller Vioxx and whether it led to the 2001 death of a Texas man.On Wednesday , jurors were to hear the last word from Merck 's legal team and plaintiff 's attorney Mark Lanier in closing arguments before they began weighing the evidence.Merck rested its case Tuesday in a trial that has drawn national attention from pharmaceutical companies , lawyers , consumers and stock analysts as the first of several tests of what lies ahead for the New Jersey-based drug maker.Merck has vowed to fight the more than 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the country . ATLANTIC CITY , N.J. ( AP ) A lawyer for an Idaho postal worker who blames the painkiller Vioxx for his September 2001 heart attack tried on Friday to portray a Merck & Co. researcher as less of a scientist than a shrewd businesswoman.In the second trial over the safety of Vioxx , attorney David Buchanan questioned Merck researcher Dr. Alise Reicin about her performance reviews in which she was described as " a tireless defender of the Vioxx franchise . No : let the miserable wrestle with his own shadows ; let him , if indeed he be so mad , clip and strain and enfold and couch the succubus ; but lt him do so in a house into which not an air of Heaven penetrates , nor a bright finger of the sun pierces the filthy twilight . The judge has not yet ruled on the motion , Merck said.Merck considers the witness testimony " important to this case because it allows jurors to hear about the benefits of Vioxx and how important it was to doctors and patients , " according to Merck 's outside counsel , Hughes Hubbard & Reed.Chris Seeger , the attorney representing Humeston , was not immediately available for comment.This is not the first time the Vioxx trials have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina . If the weekly reading takes you longer than 11 or 12 hours to complete , it is a sign that you need to make some adjustments in your reading habits . We will also watch as eighteenth - and nineteenth-century novelists and critics produced a nascent theory of the novel , paying particular attention to how individual novels meditate on what novels are , or ought , to be . Vioxx-maker Merck & Co. took the multibillion-dollar selling drug off the market last year when a study showed it could double risk of heart attack or stroke if taken 18 months or longer . He was waiting for that granting , in that flower-laden , frightfully enticing apartment of his , with the pith-white walls tinged and subdued by the crimson blinds to a blood-like gloom He paid no heed to it that his stock of money was running perilously low , nor that he ha cease to work . Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co. would then open its defense with testimony from Dr. Alan Nies , a retired Merck executive who ran the effort to bring Vioxx to the market.Robert Ernst , 59 , a produce manager at a Wal-Mart who ran marathons and also worked as a personal trainer , took Vioxx for eight months to ease pain in his hands . x As time went on , it came to pass that few except the postman mounted Oleron 's stairs ; and since men who do not write letters receive few , even the postman 's tread became so infrequent that it was not heard more than once or twice a week . For another thing , he could not yet think of that letter of Barrett 's , nor of a little scene that had followed it , without a mounting of colour and a quick contraction of the brow . It had altered its angle a little , and had moved a little to the left . " We expect to oppose any attempt to splinter , to disrupt the operation of the MDL , " Frazier told the analysts , referring to multidistrict litigation in federal court.In the MDL , pretrial evidence-gathering for thousands of Vioxx suits in federal courts is consolidated to save time and prevent Merck officials from having to give repeated depositions.Merck outside counsel Ted Mayer said the company also prefers keeping cases in the MDL because that gives Merck consistent rulings on standards for admitting evidence and for expert testimony.He added that Merck has plenty of legal teams to handle simultaneous trials.Evidence rules in state courts , on the other hand , generally allow plaintiffs more leeway.Lanier said Merck expected to fight most Vioxx cases in federal courts in the MDL , but he expects to have 10 legal teams running state trials nearly continuously , tying up Merck resources.Lanier said his lawyers ' group already has about 20,000 potential lawsuits , with only about 10 percent filed so far.The lawyers will share depositions , documents , legal strategies and focus group opinions , according to Lanier , who in August won a $ 253.4 million verdict for the widow of a Texas Vioxx user in the first case to come to trial.That amount will be reduced to about $ 26 million because Texas caps punitive damages.Merck shares rose 82 cents , or 3.1 percent , to $ 27 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.Whitehouse Station-based Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market in September 2004 after research showed long-term use of the drug doubled risk of heart attack and stroke . We need collaborative workshops for professional development and to raise morale.Endowment support for collections care is exciting.We should become more media savvy , in part so we can move from being just a site for education to a destination , explained Steven Rothman , collector and businessman.Paul Steinke , executive director of the University City District , noted that several institutions at the meeting - - Fort Mifflin , The Atwater Kent Museum , Eastern State Penitentiary - - had done something interesting to " reinvent " themselves in the past five years.There are an infinite number of things that the attending institutions can do to move forward , but finite resources . The idea contained within Ackroyd 's subtitle , that it is neither possible nor desirable simply to write a history of London , to treat that great metropolis as if it were an inanimate and static thing , will anchor our study of London and literature .