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...also fervently believes in investment cycles as a natural outcome of human behavior. The commodities boom is one such cycle, he says, and it won't last forever. "These commodity bull markets tend to last 18 to 20 years. The current one started 11 years ago," he says. No one knows when a cycle will end, Rogers says, but it's clear from his ebullient tone that he believes the best part of the ride is still ahead. That especially holds true for certain commodities that have not yet had their big run. "I like gold [partly as an inflation...
...economic development and rising prosperity continues to be a moving target. Developing Asia has enjoyed spectacular success in the decade after the wrenching financial crisis of the late 1990s. But, as they say in the investment business, a track record of success is no guarantee of future performance. The current global recession is an important wake-up call for Asia - a not-so-subtle hint to find a new recipe for its growth model. The Next Asia that emerges from this transition will need to be all about a shift in focus from the quantity to the quality...
Will determine whether a financial process can be patented; current laws grant patents only for a concrete "machine or apparatus...
Remarkably, the current groundbreaking trial almost never saw the light of day. NIAID inherited it from the Department of Defense in 2003, by which time 1,000 volunteers had already been enrolled. Fauci says he was loath to pull the rug out, despite having rejected a trial for a similar pair of prime-and-boost vaccines that came through the institute around the same time. "I was hoping when I made the decision to allow this trial to go ahead that we would at least learn something from it," says Fauci. "Guess what? We are." Maybe more than anyone could...
...Muslim country within a single decade. But his approach has started to show more promise. At recent talks in Geneva, Tehran agreed to inspections of its previously secret enrichment plant under construction at Qom, as well as to a deal that would involve sending a substantial portion of its current stock of enriched uranium abroad for processing into harmless reactor-fuel rods. Still, while Iran may be open to taking steps to strengthen safeguards against it turning fissionable material into weapons, it remains unlikely to heed the Western demand to refrain from producing that material in the first place. Even...