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Although Mayr retired from his official professorship in 1975, he retained an active position in the world of science right up to his death last week. He published his 25th book in August last year, just a month after his 100th birthday. He also contributed to over 660 scientific papers in his lifetime...
Bond Villains? No one ever said bond traders were gentlemen. But even by the bruising standards of this market, the rapid-fire sale of 12 billion euros' worth of European government bonds by a group of mainly London-based Citigroup traders last August was a shocker. Prices tumbled, and Citigroup promptly bought back 4 billion euros' worth of bonds for a tidy profit. Citigroup, the world's largest financial...
...Spice and Gillette's Right Guard. (P&G and Gillette have announced plans to merge.) Although sales of Old Spice, for instance, have grown for 10 straight years, Axe is the mover of the moment. Unilever has spent more than $100 million marketing the brand since its August 2002 launch. Wearing Axe will lead to the ultimate male fantasies, imply the ads; one shows a refrigerator stuffed with nothing but whipped-cream bottles and the line "The Axe Effect." The company places ads in such media outlets as Maxim and FHM, which target primarily young-male audiences. "The product...
...briefly quit music, stung by the corruption of the Jamaican music industry. In 1973, while on tour with his band the Wailers, he found that some white audiences wouldn't open up to his radical message, while black fans weren't even showing up for his concerts. In an August 11, 1973 Melody Maker review of a Wailers gig in New York City (headline: "Wailers Fail to Catch Afire") one critic wrote "[The Wailers] found themselves playing to largely unconverted ears...and, with virtually no exception, white ears." Marley said to High Times in September 1976 "Well, I hear...
Bradley writes that Summers flew to Gates’ home in Martha’s Vineyard in August 2001 to convince the treasured scholar to remain at Harvard...