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...that, theoretically, anyone can do but that talented people have done terribly. (Sorry, Roseanne.) So with millions of dollars riding on the choice--and a raft of daytime and prime-time chat and competition shows searching for talent--what is, as Simon Cowell would say on Idol, the "X factor" that makes the perfect host...
...Then there's the China factor or rather, the anywhere-but-China factor. Korean giant LG Electronics exports to the Middle East from appliance and consumer-electronics factories near Pune and New Delhi because it's faster to ship to those markets from India than from China. The company recently opened another Pune plant to make optical-disk drives for Europe. "We didn't want to depend on the Chinese for everything," says Kim Kwang Ro, managing director of LG Electronics in India. "Our company decided to diversify...
There's another factor that makes the community-based MRSA so dangerous, one that has been revealed only recently by genetic analysis. In addition to their normal chromosomal DNA, staph and other bacteria like to mix and match genetic information by exchanging short strips of DNA called cassettes. Some of those cassettes carry genetic instructions to do two things at once: confer antibiotic resistance and make the host even more susceptible to infection. "MRSA is where resistance and virulence converge," says Daum...
...Supreme Court eventually voted 5-4 that race is a legitimate factor to be considered in college admissions. Justice Lewis F. Powell, who announced the Court’s opinion, used the amicus brief filed by Steiner to support the decision. Powell cited Harvard College’s admissions program as one example of a constitutional affirmative action program...
...same nature as real political power: it is under the surface and very rarely-or in some cases, never-seen by the public. An entertainer, however famous and accepted, can't affect the world so much as, for example, the companies whose financing is the most important factor in producing a film or an album. To me, that's real influence. Mate Endredi Budapest...