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...well-known womanizer, Stanford has been caught on giant video screens at cricket matches flirting indiscreetly with players' wives and girlfriends. In an interview with London's The Mail, Stanford's father, James, 81, detailed his son's many "outside wives," of which he said there are three, with four outside children. But he told Reuters that his son has six children "from several women." It's hard keeping it all straight...
Senator Charles E. Grassley asked pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc., to disclose all financial ties to Harvard Medical School faculty on Tuesday, citing a recent New York Times report that 149 of the school’s faculty members have ties to the company. In a letter addressed to the Pfizer CEO, Grassley—a Republican from Iowa who has been an outspoken critic of conflicts of interest in medical research—gave the company until March 10 to produce a “detailed account” of payments to Medical School faculty since the beginning...
...goal of looking at 100,000 stars to try to find a habitable planet. His specific role in this mission is to see whether the planets are rocky or gaseous, which will be done through calculating the planet’s density. “This is a giant puzzle and he’s putting the pieces together,” Zgorski said. “He is stellar, pun intended...
...Above the buzz of the casino, life changes dramatically. The hotel is 48 floors of tranquility. Primary colors take a backseat, and neutrals, Zen greens and black dominate the color palette in the suites, all of it magnified by those giant windows. You are trying not to call it elegant, because that's not supposed to happen in Vegas, but the Encore exudes elegance right down to the European antiques that decorate some of the lounge areas. There's a separate check-in area for the tower suites that just oozes calm. (Watch TIME's video on Macau's gambling...
...warm-toned carpet and the requisite flat-screen TV, which you can watch from a comfy couch. There's a wet bar and a fridge for entertaining - we invited some friends over to share the view, and the room easily accommodated a dozen visitors. The bedroom has yet another giant screen that swings out from the wall - very important if you are going to watch a game from the whirlpool tub in the bathroom, where, once again, neutrals predominate. There's a large walk-in shower and a thoughtfully designed twin-sink vanity that can lodge every health and beauty...