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...mice. They are beginning to examine environmental factors that might contribute to the development of autism and using advanced brain-imaging technology to probe the deep interior of autistic minds. In the process, scientists are gaining rich new insights into this baffling spectrum of disorders and are beginning to float intriguing new hypotheses about why people affected by it develop minds that are strangely different from our own and yet, in some important respects, hauntingly similar...
...silly to believe that if the Israelis float a final settlement, the Palestinians’ assumed desire for a just and comprehensive peace would be enough to end suicide bombings. The Palestinians launched the current terrorist intifada after being offered a state in 98 percent of the West Bank and Gaza and sovereignty over East Jerusalem. The inducement the Staff asks Israel to give was already spurned by the Palestinian leadership...
...settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping the list: the Archbishop's elegant residence. But press reports suggest the Boston church...
...shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches--no two songs sound alike--but it's not musical bricolage. Just the best album so far this year...
...shareholders and companies alike. Kingfisher even managed to recoup $1.4 billion from its Woolworths spin-off by selling the physical stores to a property manager, who in turn leased them back to the new, independent Woolworths. The third option is the carve-out. That's when a parent company floats a portion of a division in an initial public offering (IPO), retaining the lion's share for itself. That's what Switzerland's Nestlé has planned for Alcon, its U.S. eye-care unit. Nestlé expects to float nearly 25% of it in a $2.3 billion ipo this week...