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...beneficiary of the largest gift in the University’s history, when Business School graduate Hansjörg Wyss gave $125 million to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The institute seeks to “discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things...[to] revolutionize healthcare and create a more sustainable world,” according to its Web site...
Unsatisfied with her experience, she then accepted an offer from Chase Manhattan Bank. Alemany said the increased face-to-face interaction and exposure to tremendous amounts of global travel her banking job offered convinced her to build her financial career...
...vaccine specifically attacks cancerous cells, avoiding the collateral damage on healthy cells that other cancer treatments often cause. This approach may also build long-term resistance within the immune system, the researchers said...
...country. We will support efforts by the Afghan government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens. And we will seek a partnership with Afghanistan grounded in mutual respect - to isolate those who destroy, to strengthen those who build, to hasten the day when our troops will leave and to forge a lasting friendship in which America is your partner and never your patron...
...Sheik Mohammed. Whatever Dubai's excesses, this metropolis on the desert edge - not Cairo, Beirut, Tehran or Tel Aviv - has become the Middle East's crossroads of cooperation. In a region where conflicts still rage, Dubai has become a place where Arabs and others have learned to go to build a future together. In a 2007 speech to international business leaders, Sheik Mohammed chastised Arabs who preferred "to sit around waiting, praising our glorious past and blaming others for our failures and our problems." Instead, he said, "We have to arm ourselves with courage and work quickly and seriously...