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...comes at no small cost. Losick and Lue have jointly funded the course with two grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which cover the $300,000 worth of equipment in three laboratories. Aside from the standard rows of pipettes, beakers and microscopes, the facility houses a gene gun, an RTS ProteoMaster and high-tech imaging systems...
...recounted in Tour of Duty by Kerry, Gardner had shouted: ?There?s somebody running over there?He?s got a gun?on the port side, on the port side!? PCF-44?s crew had been firing at thatched huts on their way out of the canal, and the reports of their own guns had muffled those of the shots being fired at them. Suddenly, Gardner shrieked, ?I?m hit,? and stopped firing for a moment. Before Kerry could ask his condition, Gardner shouted from his post: ?I?ll be okay,? and went back to firing...
...described himself to the Arizona Republic as "the epitome of rehabilitated," in 1976 founded a nonprofit group to help delinquent youths, which now has a multimillion-dollar budget. Last week, amid a barrage of criticism, he resigned as chairman but will stay on Smith & Wesson's board. Anti-gun lobbyists hope this embarrassment will help them defeat a bill in Congress that would shield gunmakers from crime-victim lawsuits. Says Mike Barnes, head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: "Only in the N.R.A.'s America can a company chaired by a onetime violent hoodlum be on the verge...
While the big gun has signed up more teams than StubHub has, the upstart sells more tickets because anyone, not just Ticketmaster clients' season-ticket holders, can use the site. But don't expect StubHub to return serve and make a play in the primary market. "We've got a huge stand-alone opportunity," says Baker, who runs the company with colleague Jeff Fluhr, a Stanford Business School classmate. His immediate goals include signing more teams and finalizing a Web advertising deal with a major online distributor. "Sure, you can call us Ivy League scalpers," says Baker. "But this...
...corporation would approve today. A girl with her brother explains to dad: "Willie just swallowed a bug, and I'm having him gargle with Flit." A male and a female mosquito stand before a minister mosquito, with a scowling fourth figure holding the spray at the groom: "The Flit Gun Wedding." A bug stands in front of the business end of the spray gun, a rope attached to the pump: "The suicide." In a tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich, Das Flit" (Should it be "Raus"?) The campaign expanded to book form, with...