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David Azar, who has worked at Cardullo’s for seven months, was arraigned on Friday morning and charged with larceny in excess of $250, wanton destruction of property and possession of a substance suspected to be cocaine...
...Mart is more than a particularly egregious violator of workers’ rights. It has become a symbol of corporate excess. A union at Wal-Mart would show that workers can succeed against even the most powerful of corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists all over...
...veritable bacchanalia of inter-student organization excess, the event lived up to the predilections of its namesake. Typically antagonistic undergraduates—fired up by two weeks of back-and-forth salvos between the paper’s editorial page and UC president Matt W. Mahan ’05—smoothed their differences over gallons of cheap alcohol. As the busts of sober Harvard alumni frowned down from the walls, ping-pong balls and sprays of beer flew across the wood-paneled, hallowed halls of the Sanctum...
...candidates seemed to agree on the need for more opportunities for students to let loose responsibly. They pointed out that if the University were to acknowledge that college students drink, students may then be less likely to drink to excess...
...drug targets a protein called Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNK). TNK can help immune systems fight infections and tumors, but an excess of it causes inflammatory diseases. Xencor's protein binds with the excess TNK and shuts it down. The company believes this is a superior approach to existing treatments, which simply seek to lower TNK levels. Xencor's approach derives from a process Dahiyat invented in 1997 while a graduate student at Caltech. Instead of using time-consuming methods like trial and error, he asked a computer to figure out what mix of amino acids would make a protein...