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...boss caricature. A former hedge fund manager pins his thumbtack somewhere between "The Economy" and "Consumer Spending" while a few yards away, a laid off videographer for media gossip site Gawker tosses a telephone wrapped in electrical tape just shy of the 100-point mark, as designated by circle drawn with sidewalk chalk. Prizes are awarded, mostly in the form of gift certificates to local restaurants and bars - Goddard had advertised a month of free medical insurance, but found it difficult to follow through. "For some reason, medical insurance companies don't like to give away insurance to strangers...
...fertility doctors agree that a lot can be gleaned from the smattering of studies of long-term risks for infertility patients, who receive the same protocol for ovarian stimulation and retrieval as donors. The primary health concern is cancer, and studies assessing cancer rates among infertility patients have drawn conflicting results. Many such studies are hobbled by small sample groups, or are too short term. The most extensive study to date, published in February in the American Journal of Epidemiology, used historical data from women who gave birth in Jerusalem in the early 1970s. It found a significant 30-year...
...America has always debated the primary source of its wealth: capital or labor. And in a way that happens more frequently in literature than in life, Rattner and Bloom are neatly drawn avatars for the opposing sides of that argument. As such, they make a complementary team to resuscitate the moribund automakers. Out of money and out of options, GM and Chrysler can be saved from complete dissolution only by a government effort to reconcile management, workers and creditors to a much-diminished future. If Rattner and Bloom can find common ground, perhaps those dueling interests...
...woes. The news has not been easy to take for the showpiece city-state, the most populous among the seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates. Indeed, even as the rest of the world spiraled into crisis, the U.A.E. insisted its brand-name city would not be drawn in by the downturn. In fact, the U.A.E. established a "no news is good news" policy of sorts. In January the government announced that fines ranging from $13,600 to $272,500 would be levied against any media outlet that published news considered damaging to the "country's reputation...
...tremendous opportunity for HHMI to impact the research community by freeing promising scientists to pursue their best ideas during this early stage of their careers,” said Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech in the news release. Each of the recipients, drawn from 33 institutions across the country, have led their own research laboratories for three to five years, putting them at a career stage that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Web site called the “most productive—and most vulnerable.” Because researchers’ start...