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...vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington: "This removes the only real bargaining chip the FARC had left in its dealings with the government. It's going to be very hard now to talk of the FARC as a national guerrilla movement - it's going to fracture and fragment even more, and the important thing for the Uribe government to do now is offer them more incentives to incorporate themselves into civilian society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Stunning Hostage Rescue | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

...Murdoch saw an opportunity in the jigsaw of James' businesses. Late last year, Packer's people split the family conglomerate into media and gaming divisions, with James more focused on the latter. Just before Christmas, Murdoch approached his mate about doing a deal on the group's media fragment, CMH. Over a wet January weekend, bunkered down in a city office, the pair nutted out their privatization plan, which would raise Packer's stake in CMH from 38% to 50% and give the other half to Murdoch, who would take charge as executive chairman. "I am only interested in running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in Business | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Stone provided some encouraging words for her players in the dressing room before the Crimson took the ice in the third, making sure that her team kept everything in perspective.“It’s a hockey game. [We don’t want to] start to fragment ourselves and try to do things on our own,” Stone said. “We stay together and whatever happens, happens.”A rejuvenated Harvard squad came out aggressive and determined in the last frame, and the dream of taking down Goliath quickly turned into...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Avoids Near-Upset With Brine Tallies | 3/2/2008 | See Source »

...genes, and work his way up by splicing together longer and longer pieces of DNA. That very act of sticking them together proved to be a challenge, since the strands often fall apart. The answer was to design a section of Velcro-like DNA at the ends of each fragment. Since adenine sticks only to thymine and cytosine only to guanine, all the team had to do was end each strand with a nucleotide that would adhere to the one that began the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...companies working on treatments, that means relying on drug trials involving patients who may not even have the disease. "That's why the treatments we have now don't work that well," says Adams. In September, Amorfix announced that its technology can detect aggregated beta-amyloid, the protein fragment that, when gobbed together in the brain, is thought to identify Alzheimer's. With 460 million people worldwide over the age of 65, Adams estimates the market at as much as $5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGE ADAMS: Find the Bad Protein; Then, Fix It | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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