His father and his paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., both became four-star United States Navy admirals. The McCain family followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific.
At $60,000 per 750 ml, Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani, is the most expensive. Bottled in solid gold, it weighs 24 karats. Its designer Fernando Altamirano of Tequila Ley fame, is also credited as the creator of one of the most exclusive spirits.
(ImClone, the biotechnology company founded by her friend Sam Waksal, made the drug.) But recently Eribitux has acquired a new, and perhaps more ominous, distinction. At $17,000 a month, Erbitux is one of the most expensive cancer drugs ever made. For the record, it is not the most expensive. That distinction is currently held by Zevalin, a $24,000-a-month treatment for a relatively rare type of lymphoma. But the prevalence of colon cancerâthe disease strikes 106,000 Americans a yearâmakes the price of Erbitux especially troubling.