Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.

We've been putting them in for about a year and a half now. It's the new state standard. Eventually all signals will be like that. We've put in a hundred in our division.

The movie was going to be a big hit. Of course, that was a perfect illustration of what market research does. It tells you what you don't need to know and is often very misleading.

We have 13 research sites distributed throughout the world. Videoconferencing lets the biologists collaborate with the chemists and clinicians when they are all located at different sites. [With video] you can see the whole development spectrum and get the appropriate inputs.

We'd like to try to obtain some high-value biotech firms and research firms. I think we're having good discussions with Scripps, their representatives and others. Those are the kind of jobs we want to bring to Martin County.

It's clear now that states are the key to the future of medical research.