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...defining feature of the MTL will be the advent of a systematic approach to chemical genetics,” Schreiber said yesterday in a press release...
While the Internet is vast, Kollock says that does not necessarily mean it is private. “In the past, what was talked about in discussion groups was unlikely to be seen,” he says. With the advent of Google and Yahoo, however, such privacy is no longer a guarantee. “Powerful search engines aggregate information and make it practical and discoverable,” he says. “In a sense, search engines have ended the formal boundaries that once existed in online communities...
...current sports-broadcasting dilemma. He was, after all, present at the creation. Before the 1990s, Europe's airwaves were ruled mainly by public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch as pay-TV's "battering ram." Broadcasters piled in, sparking a bidding...
...says the new committee—to be named in the coming weeks—will discuss this residency requirement and its appropriateness with the advent of distance education...
Think history can provide easy solutions? Think again. Our distant ancestors sometimes dealt with romantic disappointment by leaving home to become monks and nuns. More recent generations would phone their exes dozens of times and hang up immediately. The decline of convents and the advent of caller ID have eradicated both of these time-honored traditions, so you’ll have to look in a different direction...