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...Connectivity Map marks another step in an ongoing boom in biomedical genetics research. Earlier this month, a team including Will Parsons, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University and the National Cancer Institute, sequenced the genetic code for human breast and colon cancers...
...said to stand for "God Is Speaking"). A rich store of anecdotes spans what were, arguably, the most tumultuous periods of Hong Kong's history-the civil unrest and refugee influx of the late 1960s, the social changes wrought by the rapid industrialization of the 1970s, and the 1980s boom years (which were never fully enjoyed, owing to the deep anxieties surrounding Hong Kong's return to China in 1997). The book nears conclusion with Moss's eventual appointment as department head and it also-in a marvelous final twist-relates a fall of sorts. During his career, Moss kept...
...since Time began publishing here 60 years ago, it's striking how many of the biggest shifts have taken place on levels that have nothing to do with physical or political geography. Events inside Europe's borders - the decline of communism, the huge increase in the Muslim population, the boom in low-cost air travel - have contributed at least as much to Europe's self-definition as have, for example, the shifting lines on a map that mark the expansion of the European Union. The frontiers that seem most important at one time shrink into insignificance at another. The demarcation...
...Utah's entrepreneurial attitude that perhaps accounts most of all for the boom. A large portion of supplements is sold through multilevel marketing, commonly known as MLM--or person-to-person sales. The trade publication Nutrition Business Journal estimates that $7.7 billion in supplements was sold in U.S. vitamin stores last year, $6 billion by food markets and big-box outlets and $4.2 billion via MLM distribution. "It's a substantial figure," says journal editor Grant Ferrier. "Roughly 20% of all sales come from MLM, and Utah is the stronghold...
...This generation finds ethnic rivalries far less interesting than the economic boom. It's one of Estonia's characteristics that many of the top jobs in politics and business are held by people under 40, who were too young to have been tainted by the Soviet past. They are also the ones building the new homes that are shooting up on the outskirts of Tallinn, and refurbishing their apartments. Much of this is being done on credit; banks report that their lending is up by a startling 50% this year, leading some to worry about a bubble economy, especially...