Word: browning
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...small, brown, furry creature inside a cage in Princeton University's molecular-biology department looks for all the world like an ordinary mouse. It sniffs around, climbs the bars, burrows into wood shavings on the floor, eats, eliminates, sleeps. But put the animal through its paces in a testing lab, and it quickly becomes evident that this mouse is anything but ordinary. One after another, it knocks off a variety of tasks designed to test a rodent's mental capacities--and almost invariably learns more quickly, remembers what it learns for a longer time and adapts to changes...
...accounts, the Jints are headed for a very respectable season, but those same accounts say Tony Dungy's Buccaneers are finally ready to assume the Packers' mantle for the next millennium. An undefeated, defense-heavy preseason means the boys in gold make Giants QB Kent Graham look like Dave Brown and stuff...
...allegedly dropped off a body at a Detroit hospital. Reding was found innocent of charges stemming from the incident. He had also been suspected in three previous assisted-suicide cases in Michigan but not prosecuted. He now faces first-degree murder charges in New Mexico. CHARLIE BROWN, the deputy district attorney of Sandoval County, says he isn't interested in debate about assisted suicide, which is against the law in New Mexico. "I'm just trying to keep it a simple murder case," he says...
...because no faxes, phone calls or paper trails snake back and forth to clog the communications channel between buyer and seller. That is just one aspect of these new wholesale channels that has analysts salivating. B2B companies "are going to reshape the entire economy," says Charles Finnie of Volpe Brown Whelan & Co., an investment-banking firm based in San Francisco. "It's not unlikely that Mr. Greenspan will be sitting in front of Congress in the next couple of years saying one of the main reasons inflation is dead is the B2B Internet companies...
...picture. Take Chemdex.com a vertical e-market based in Palo Alto, Calif., developed for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry in 1997. Chemdex is reducing sales and distribution costs industrywide by 20%--more than $4 billion of the total $20 billion global life-sciences research-products market, according to Volpe Brown analyst Finnie. "In effect," he says, "Chemdex is turning around to the chemical producers, and it is saying, 'Congratulations! This is your lucky day. You just won the lottery. Here's a check for $4 billion.' These guys have not seen their costs structure improved like this ever...