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With a $53,000 grant from NSF, the pair embarked on their first independent research project in Sept. 2009. Using Harvard’s million-dollar mass spectrometer, they are studying calcium isotopes in rocks in order to better understand geological history...
...partisan sniping already breaking out following the failed airline bombing, the last thing Obama needs right now is to be accused of launching what General Tommy Franks once derided as "pinpricks." (After the 9/11 attacks, Franks voiced his glee that he would no longer be ordered to launch "million-dollar [cruise missiles] into empty tents...
...made redundant and now live on benefits as a result of the credit crunch brought about by our banking fraternity. Like many, I felt disappointed that, after being rescued with billions in taxpayers' money, they were still trying to give each other annual million-dollar bonuses. But then I felt better - I too was to receive a Christmas bonus: an extra ?10 in my December unemployment benefits. I can now almost afford a haircut. Joe Field, LONDON...
...string of success stories has transformed a design scene once considered frivolous - back when banking was choice - into one of the few sectors driving Iceland out of its economic quagmire. In September, the Ministry of Industry bestowed its first million-dollar grant to a fashion house, Andersen & Lauth. The company's creative director, Gunnar Hilmarsson, was also recently crowned chairman of the year-and-a-half-old Design Centre. Although it was created before the crash, Hilmarsson explains that the center - which is a government-sponsored platform for exhibitions and seminars - took on a new life once the money disappeared...
While Toronto festival co-director Cameron Bailey is optimistic that by year's end money spent to acquire 2009 TIFF films will be comparable to that of prior years, others say he's dreaming. "Usually there would be one film that came close to a double-digit million-dollar sale, if not hitting that," says Ted Hope, a 20-year veteran indie-film producer whose credits include 21 Grams and The Ice Storm. "Then you would have four or five films in that $4-to-$6 million range and four to seven films in that $1-to-$3 million range...