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...squad and the No. 6 women’s team sailed in a total of three regattas along the East Coast, picking up a third-, a fourth-, and a fifth-place finish in the spring season’s fourth weekend of action. While the Northeast was where the bulk of the Crimson competed over the weekend, the most important practice still came from preparing for Nationals at Navy. “We wanted to get some time sailing and getting used to the waters down here,” junior captain Kyle Kovacs said of sailing in Annapolis...
...chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft, which he began before leaving Harvard in 1975, Gates parlayed a knack for computer science into the world’s largest fortune. He has committed the bulk of that wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his leading philanthropic organization...
What would happen if these newfangled mosquitoes were released into the wild? The hope is that the modified mosquitoes would out-compete the existing ones, and the bulk of the mosquito population would be malaria resistant, thus preventing new human malaria infections. It’s not beyond the realm of possibilities that the engineered mosquitoes could entirely replace the wild ones. This solution would be simple and inexpensive. It would not rely on vaccinating entire human populations nor spraying pesticides to control mosquitoes. It would use mosquitoes to fight mosquitoes...
...President Jacques Chirac most likely in gratitude for Gaydamak's help in securing the release of Frenchmen who'd been taken hostage by Serb paramilitaries in 1995. While in Israel, Gaydamak has been investigated for money laundering. He insists his business practices are clean and that he made the bulk of his money speculating in the Russian stock market...
...students have enjoyed it immensely.” According to Gandt, the one-year agreement is only an experimental license. Both sides are monitoring usage and possibilities for improvements, she said. The students will pay per usage of materials from the HBS repository, but because of the bulk deal struck by BYU-Idaho, contents of the library will be available at lower costs. Discussion of the arrangement began with Clark’s arrival to BYU-Idaho in the summer of 2005, Bell said. According to the most recent HBS Annual Report, HBS Publishing brought in 33 percent...