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What a protein does is largely determined by its shape. Proteins are stippled with pockets and grooves into which molecules fit as precisely as a key fits a lock. To fully understand how a protein works, you have to be familiar with every nook and cranny on its surface, which is why the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will spend $20 million this fall to establish a series of research centers dedicated to a branch of proteomics known as structural genomics. The centers will detail, over the next 10 years, the shapes of 10,000 proteins. That...
...attempt to answer the moguls' pathetic pleas for answers (and perhaps in a bid to keep Murdoch from buying them up lock, stock and barrel), both newspapers worked in down-and-dirty financial analyses of the movie crisis, trying, without success, to work out the arithmetical correlation between moviegoers' appetites and the position of the moon and certain planets...
...general, use options only in tandem with stocks in your portfolio--to lock in gains and protect against events like an earnings report or a court ruling. There are exceptions, like Grandma's bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk...
Just harmless roughhousing? Not according to critics, including many from the pro-wrestling industry. "If I had a kid doing it, I'd lock him in his bedroom," says Verne Langdon, a trainer and owner of Slammers Wrestling Gym in Studio City, Calif. "Pros don't always set a good example...
...Yale: 1. New Haven lock factory. 2. Where you would have had to go if you didn't get into Harvard...