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...Astex calls its drug discovery method "fragment-based,'' because rather than throwing an entire proposed drug molecule at the target protein, they throw just pieces at a time. Jhoti claims this yields a much higher success rate than trying out whole molecules, an approach favored by large drug companies like the one he left in 1999, Glaxo Wellcome...
...best choice because we believe that students should have a choice over whether they support renewables,” said Allison I. Rogers ’04, who now works for the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. “We’re positive that the opt-out method would be the most successful and the campaign now needs to educate the campus on why the opt-out method is best...
Owners of vintage stores are neither raiding our closets, nor (hopefully) stealing shirts from unsuspecting day campers. Instead, there are three main methods for vintage stores looking for goods: donations, auctions or an army of vintage minions. Each method gives the store a certain character, so if you’re wondering which one suits your style, you’re lucky that in the Square we’ve got all three...
...film about betrayal was a tough way to get back in the game. "I'm the anti-Method actor. As soon as we finish a scene, I need to go back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to take this home with me," she says. "I would feel cheated on when I went home. There were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my friends...
...needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. (The company's Russian minority shareholders are howling because BP uses a complicated transfer-pricing method that allows the parent company, instead of subsidiaries, to book the lion's share of profits.) "That's a deal we won't see repeated," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The climate now is for strategic minority investments by foreign companies in Russian energy." Says William F. Browder...