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...Australians have lost their life savings on this play, although there are stragglers who missed happy hour and paid $7.40 (in T2, touted as a "great deal" by the P.M.) to join the Telstra party. Worried that it would miss its opportunity to sell out of the telco (a long-held aim of the Conservatives), the Howard government announced on Aug. 25 that another public share offer would go ahead. T3 will sell about 21.8% of the company, worth some $8 billion; the remaining 30% will be transferred to the so-called Future Fund that underwrites the unfunded retirement-benefit...
...miles south of Edinburgh. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born each summer on surrounding farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no ordinary lamb. She was cloned from a single mammary cell of an adult ewe, overturning long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. Her birth set off a race in laboratories around the world to duplicate the breakthrough. It also raised the specter--however distant--of human cloning...
...world would be more forbidding than the sandy 28-mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held air of suspicion and gangs of gunmen ready to open fire...
...American Dream,’” says Bjelland.Harvard has adopted Worth’s pioneering spirit and become one of the first colleges to recruit in Africa, a crucial and largely untapped area, according to Worth.“Robin is fulfilling a long-held dream of opening up opportunities for scholarship and development of future world leaders from throughout the world that Harvard can offer,” Burrows says. BRINGING THE WORLD TO HARVARDToday, Robin Worth has maintained a sense of the importance of education and an international view of the world that she had upon...
...higher-wage single-earner family with the same family income." Apps documents the squeeze on Middle Australia-paying for the increased benefits of those at the bottom and the tax cuts of those at the top. According to Apps family taxation now closely approximates so-called "joint taxation," a long-held policy ideal...