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...Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest. But in Scotland, industry critics are predictably furious. "Biotech companies aren't interested in education," says Matthew Herbert of the protest group Scottish Genetix Action. "They're selling products." Publisher Jeff Davidson replies, "We're trying to encourage scientific literacy and debate...
...they often get to draft the legal language that governs cross-border deals. That has made New York State law, in particular, a global gold standard, often invoked in a transaction even when neither party is based in the U.S. "It's become a neutral, third-party law," says Jeff Lewis, a partner at the New York City firm Cleary, Gottlieb. "In Asia and Latin America, when a state enterprise auctions off assets, the legal documents are often written to be governed by New York law. It's done to attract American investment...
Researchers at Berkeley's robotics lab are also excited about what they call "Nintendo" surgery. This involves presenting surgeons with simulations of rare abnormalities. "Simulators give you a way to make things go wrong," says Jeff Ustin, a trained surgeon now studying electrical engineering at Berkeley. Further out on the edge is a research project at Yale that is looking at performing surgery in a virtual environment and storing it for future automated use. A team of medical technicians would pop the patient into a surgical machine, something like slotting in a piece of toast, taking him out when...
This environment, spread over four floors, each the size of a city block, will become home this August to 2,000 employees trading commodities that range from Old World (crude oil, petrochemicals, steel and lumber) to New World (emission credits and derivatives). Chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeff Skilling are even moving from their skyboxes to work in seventh-floor offices so they can peer down into...
...Latino producers, the diversity controversy provided brief entree. To a point. Jeff Valdez, producer of Nickelodeon's The Brothers Garcia, says he began to get calls from networks that had blown him off before. "So I pitched three shows and never got a return call," he says. "Now they can say they met with a real Hispanic and move on with their business...