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...Guggenheim event, Woetzel led audience members through the opening passage of one of George Balanchine's most famous ballets, "Serenade," and then Sandel spoke of the importance of engaging students in philosophy by using real-world applications. The overall message was that both ballet and philosophy require direct audience engagement...
That simple credo serves Google well, having led to numerous hit products, from AdSense to software stars like Google Earth, Maps and Docs...
What's more, the deals the banks wanted to strike with AIG would have involved the insurer and the government giving up their right to reclaim the underlying bonds. Some have argued that would have led to a worse deal for AIG. Instead, the Federal Reserve decided to give AIG the money to pay off the CDS contracts in exchange for the soured bonds. As credit markets have rebounded, those investments, most of which were risky mortgage bonds, have risen in value...
...study, led by Andrea L. Richardson, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and Zhigang C. Wang, a professor of surgery at the Medical School, discovered two genes located on a chromosome whose presence amplified resistance to anthracycline drugs. The pair of genes, found in 20 percent of the samples, inhibits cancerous cell death and prevents the chemotherapy drugs from reaching the cell nucleus...
...deal effectively with burning Tamil grievances that led to over two and a half decades of bloodshed, Rajapaksa needs "to do something that no president has done so far," says Terrence Purasinghe, a senior lecturer at the Sri Jayawardenapura University in Colombo. "He will have to bring the minority Tamils into a position of political power, where they have some sense of control and not controlled by the center." Rajapaksa pledged to look at power sharing during the campaign, and Sri Lanka's Tamils are waiting to see whether those promises will be fulfilled. And the standoff outside the Cinnamon...