In September, Mr Pinault launched a hostile bid for Worms, a big financial group that included Athena, a profitable and well-run insurer.

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First he must reveal himself to his son Telemachos, who has been vainly searching for him, and convince him that he is, indeed, his father a tough act since the goddess Athena has just turned Odysseus into a younger, god-like man, and recognition hangs on disbelieving your eyes.

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Athena Neurosciences was founded as a stand-alone company in 1987 with the express purpose of curing Alzheimer's.

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But lately, all of those have seemed to be supporting players to AN-1792, a compound developed by scientists at Elan's Athena Neurosciences unit in San Francisco.

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But lately, those drugs have seemed to be supporting players to AN-1792, a compound developed by scientists at Elan's Athena Neurosciences unit in San Francisco, a unit once headed by Lieberburg.

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At the Acropolis Museum in Athens, there's a bas-relief of Hera, the queen of the gods, shaking hands with Athena, the goddess of wisdom which is apt, because the handshake is generally a wise move.

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