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...complicated maneuvering around Perrier, which now involves about a dozen European food and drink manufacturers, investment firms and banks, may be the opening gambit of a Continent-wide scramble in which European and American companies will grab for the biggest possible portions in the soon-to-be- restructured European trading community. Friends have quoted Giovanni Agnelli, elder statesman of the Turin clan, as saying, "I really won't be satisfied until I have a Nestle." As the stakes get higher in Europe's food industry, the ultimate question may become who eats whom first...
...course, rent control advocates call the suit a "grab bag" of landlord gripes, saying that the fight has been fought before, and that the landlords lost...
...This is a grab bag of various items, some of which have already been litigated extensively in the state courts," says Mike Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, an organization that has often found itself at odds with SPOA...
...light, scientists can seize and manipulate everything from DNA molecules to bacteria and yeast without harming them. Among other things, optical tweezers can keep a tiny organism swimming in place while scientists study its paddling flagella under a microscope. Optical tweezers can also reach right through cell membranes to grab specialized structures known as organelles and twirl them around. Currently, researchers are using the technology to measure the mechanical force exerted by a single molecule of myosin, one of the muscle proteins responsible for motion. Scientists are also examining the swimming skill of an individual sperm. "One day," imagines Michael...
...Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot to repel any seizure. Nonetheless, local riot police in Azerbaijan have hijacked some army trucks full of ammunition. It is not inconceivable that future raiders or army mutineers might grab some nukes...