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...committee will be charged with helping to resolve some of the questions last year's merger between Radcliffe and Harvard did not settle...
...wireless technology) and civil engineering (the dazzling new Normandy Bridge and the Franco-British Channel Tunnel). With assets like these, the country is well placed to benefit from the cyclical upturn lifting all European economies. Meanwhile, aggressive French firms are making their mark abroad. Vivendi last month announced a merger with Canada's Seagram that will give the new company control of Universal's film and music interests and make it a major player in the entertainment field...
BERNIE EBBERS WorldCom-Sprint deal looks dead. Who'd really want to be part of a mega-media merger anyway...
Given the dramatic differences in their personalities, Venter and Collins will never be close collaborators. The agreement that led up to this week's announcement has more the character of a statesmanlike cease-fire than of a scientific merger. The two teams will try to publish their work simultaneously--but not jointly--in an upcoming issue of a major journal, probably Science. They have agreed that patents are appropriate only at the point where a gene's function is understood...
...priest to end a ministry to gays and their families because it did not stress the "intrinsically disordered" nature of homosexuality, further prohibited the nun and priest from talking about what they used to do. Even the small Mennonite and General Conference Mennonite churches, for years planning a merger, came within 10 votes of scuttling it, in part because they couldn't agree on the combined church's position on gays...