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...much of this bantering about professors and publishers is just passing the buck...
...years, the securities industry in the U.S. and elsewhere has been host to fast-buck brokerage firms that have ridden the back of the bull market like so many parasites. Typically, they hype penny stocks in tiny companies that are all promise and no delivery and then close up shop when the market hiccups or the regulators catch on, leaving gullible investors to count their losses...
...able to bring aging to a halt. Elsewhere, scientists are studying how the waste produced when a cell consumes food can contaminate its innards, a process that can lead to the body-wide breakdowns we associate with aging. Clean up the cells, and you should be able to buck up the entire organism. Still elsewhere, geneticists are beginning to map the very genes that direct us to get old in the first place. After mapping genes, the next logical step is manipulating them, and once you start reweaving the DNA that codes for life itself, anything is theoretically possible...
...Campus Life] committee whose job it is to put on the events trying to pass the buck onto the rest of the council, and I see a council who's willing to put the money into [the event], but is not willing to work on it," said Jeffrey M. Goldfarb...
...fiscal conservative with a record of cutting wasteful spending as the state's General Treasurer. She has detailed ideas on how to adjust the tax system, including indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and giving estate-tax cuts to help small businesses. She'll have to buck a hefty Democratic tradition, though, to become the Ocean State's first female senator...