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...retailers are already forgoing the chemical, buying and selling BPA-free bottles and other products. Wal-Mart and Toys 'R Us have already announced their intention to shift away from products containing BPA. Which shouldn't be surprising - in America, commerce leaves science and the government in the dust...
...details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...long-standing criticism, though, is that NIH/NCI is necessarily structured for caution, for limited returns based on individual scientists grinding it out in their labs--the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust mentality. To get funding, individual researchers typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success. "You have to have already done some of the stuff and then propose it, before they're going to believe it's the right thing to do," says Dr. Ray DuBois, executive vice president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a cancer researcher. A proposal can take months...
...Commerzbank said it could achieve savings of some $7.27 billion, largely by cutting 9,000 jobs from the combined staff of 67,000, and by closing about 22% of the new bank's branches. Still, when the dust settles Commerzbank will have 1,200 branches in Germany, compared to Deutsche...
...What Amy and Bill found were 15 columns of between 800 and 1,300 words, covering such pictures as White Heat, Germany Year Zero, Pinky, The Heiress, Beyond the Forest, Thieves' Highway, They Live by Night, All the King's Men, Intruder in the Dust, Passport to Pimlico (loved it) and Adam's Rib (hated it). You can locate these and other Manny movie reviews fairly quickly by typing a film's title, in quotes, into the Search box. What you'll also discover is a 32-year-old writer coping with a house style and deadline fatigue, but also...