Word: digester
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...What in your book is new and fresh?[Laughs ] Nothing! The book was written in a language that I think people could digest. Did Muhammad say something that Jesus didn't say or that Abraham didn't say before him? I'm not suggesting I'm one of those people, but [it's about] obvious truths. You already have everything you need. I always say that all the prophets said the same exact thing but they said them in different languages, at different times, they were different colors - same s---, though, same thing...
...fact it can be traced to a single inventor, Gerald Holtom, whose story is woven into two new histories, Peace: The Biography of a Symbol by Ken Kolsbun with Michael S. Sweeney (National Geographic; 175 pages) and Peace: 50 Years of Protest by Barry Miles (Reader's Digest; 256 pages...
...swinging standards of Wall Street, Kerviel's salary amounted to chump change. And the fact that he wasn't eligible for dizzyingly huge bonuses is so alien to the average Wall Street trader that they're still trying to digest it. One, a college friend of mine who didn't study "trading" but English literature, and is now a multimillionaire, e-mailed me: "What is that, a French thing...
...bronze bust of Burns in the midst of gilt-framed romantic Highland scenes presides over the Caledonian Club dining room. Tom Quinn is singing "Rantin', Rovin' Robin" accompanied by Clive Gavin on piano as the members and guests digest. When wearing trousers, by day, both men are senior managers for the Royal Bank of Scotland...
...does, that it will matter much. Corporate giants like DuPont already put synthetic biology to industrial use. In the company's Loudon, Tenn., plant, for example, billions of E. coli bacteria stew inside massive tanks. The bacteria's genomes contain 23 alterations that instruct it to digest sugar from corn and produce propane diol, a polyester used in carpets, clothing and plastics. The hard-working bugs churn out 100 million lbs. (45 million kg) of the stuff each day, and all it took was a little tinkering with their genomes, not the construction of a new one. "In terms...