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...Bush administration was urging Sharon to withdraw, and the absence of a clear endgame in "Operation Defensive Shield" caused considerable consternation in the Israeli media. But Ariel Sharon is a practical man, a field commander more comfortable with tactical improvisation than grand strategic visions. His preferred method is to change the "facts on the ground," creating new faits accompli that develop a life of their own and change the terms of grand strategic debate. That's the rationale for the settlement movement - to stake an Israeli claim on the lands captured in 1967 by simply seizing them and setting down...
Companies looking to recast themselves as lean, mean corporate machines have three options. The preferred method of divestment is a sale, especially if there's enough interest to create an auction - and get a premium price. But buyers are not always available in slow economic times, and some divisions are not appealing to anyone. "If you can't sell it or if it is very large, you do a spin-off," says Paul Gibbs, head of M and A research at J.P. Morgan in London. A spin-off is essentially giving a unit to shareholders. But because spin-offs...
...wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their performances from being admired then, and what makes them admirable now. Similarly, "Sweet Smell" is cherished today...
Chan’s technique of DNA mapping differs from traditional methods in the way it scans each individual molecule of DNA. Instead of reading small pieces of strands separately, the new method reads an entire strand at once. After the double helix is unraveled, a laser reads off the base pairs that determine the DNA sequence...
...approach [of the Human Genome Project] was like opening the book of life, reading 500 letters, closing the book, then doing it again,” Chan said. “With our method, we read it at once, front to back...