Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flip side to all this promise is the challenge that comes with it, perhaps it's a good thing that we may have a long time to weigh the answers. The more scientists learn about the way we age, the more they wonder why we have to. Our skin replaces itself every two weeks, our bones every seven years or so. With the help of the code book, maybe scientists will one day turn our bodies into repair shops, learn how to control the genes that break and those that fix, so that our lives, like the immortal molecule Watson...
...begins in 1906 and embraces most of the 20th century. Mountstuart starts his diary as a senior in high school--a sixth former, as they say--and goes on to chronicle his years at Oxford, his early literary efforts and his assorted marriages and affairs. Sophisticated and self-deprecating, flip-flopping between passionate love and fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky...
...Ninja Tune’s most elite sample warriors, the highly touted Russian Percussion aim to funkify body and soul with integrated scratching, beatboxing and rhyming. What’s more, world-renowned breakbeat ninja Hrvatski (from Somerville) will provide the opening DJ set at 9 p.m. Flip out. Friday, February 14 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...flip side: many CEOs in particular are not disposed to listen to someone they don't consider a peer. "There's still a pecking order in the boardroom," says the Council of Institutional Investors' Teslik. It will be up to new directors to breach that barrier. Munoz, for his part, says he would not join any board that seemed resistant to change. "It's not that difficult to tell whether someone is sincere about wanting to include you in the decision-making process," he says...
LOVELACE: Intel [0.5%] already pays a token dividend. As for others, I think the answer is yes. Traditionally, paying a dividend was an expression of confidence by management. With tech companies, that got flip-flopped. Paying a dividend was a sign of a lack of confidence in future growth. The traditional view is coming back...