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...agency, Garching Innovation. The combined start-up expertise of Ulrich Mahr (Garching Innovation), Torsten Mummenbrauer (Garching Innovation) and Ivan Baines (Max Planck Institute-CBG, Dresden), together with the forward-looking and innovative attitude within the MPG toward spinning out companies, are the factors that really contributed to the successful launch of Cenix. Christophe Echeverri CEO/CSO, Cenix BioScience GmbH Dresden, Germany
...launch. Microsoft jumped in last week with the U.S. debut of MSN Music, which is compatible with a range of players (iTunes files only work on the iPod). Hewlett-Packard has begun selling its own Apple-authorized iPod. And Asia may soon get its first regional digital-music store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong...
...only once. Today Americans can "wager" on elections online through the Iowa Electronic Markets, a small-scale futures exchange that lets people buy contracts on candidates based on their estimated chance of victory. (At press time, George W. Bush led John Kerry 54% to 46%.) Since its 1988 launch, the I.E.M. has outpredicted election-eve polls by an average of 0.5 percentage points...
...commanders say they have inflicted punishing blows to al-Sadr's army; the military claims that hundreds of the cleric's fighters have been killed in the fighting in Najaf. But the fear of alienating peaceful Shi'ites forced the Allawi government to hold back from its threats to launch a decisive strike against rebels inside the shrine. And so late last week, even as al-Sadr claimed to be handing over the site to officials loyal to Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, al-Sadr's shock troops remained armed and in control of the streets surrounding...
...reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action." DOUG BEREUTER, retiring Republican Congressman from Nebraska, who had supported launching an attack on Iraq...