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Stuck for the perfect gift for a sports-mad loved one this Christmas? How about buying them an English soccer club? That's what the 20,000 plus members of online venture MyFootballClub.co.uk (MyFC) will get this year when they take possession of their very own team, Ebbsfleet United, following the completion of due diligence on the purchase of the non-league side. For around $70, "owners" will take control of all aspects of running the club - both on and off the field - by voting in online polls for player transfers, team selection and tactics. Starting line-ups are decided...
...implications were chilling. Since the mid-1990s, the words mad-cow disease had turned beef eaters around the world to tofu tasters as people began to die of the human variant of the disease. Then in 2004 came another disturbing report in the medical journal the Lancet: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), as the illness is properly called, could be spread through blood transfusions. With no way to test for the incurable illness except in the brain samples of the dead, how to ensure the safety of the world's blood supply...
...boost the country's biotech industry. "Nobody bet on us from the government," he says, an account that officials confirm. So, to fund the company that would eventually make the BPro, HealthSTATS International, Ting sold three of the four medical clinics he was running. "Everyone thought I was mad," he says. Ting launched the BPro in Singapore last spring, and is readying its launch in the U.S., where it has been cleared for marketing by the Food and Drug Administration...
...thought ‘man this kid’s really good.’ Back in his room, he performed a set in front of us again, and I’m like ‘whoa, that’s pretty legit.’ He had mad agility. His hands were going crazy on the equipment...
...first quarter: A lesson: Don't make the Harvard defense mad. Joe Sandberg loses two on the first play from scrimmage...