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...independent investigator said Madoff's fraudulent fund was in the $3 billion to $7 billion range in 2000, then a year later grew to near $20 billion, and then eventually to its reported $50 billion in late 2008. He said there were at least 14 feeder funds...
...refugees in some grim industrial process. He also gives bizarre dates and numbers to describe the growth of Israeli settlements in the territories it occupied. The first settlements began in 1967 and 1968—not 1973 as Kennedy claims—and the number of settlers is nowhere near the 600,000 that he suggests...
...1980s, I began to notice that the lobbies of the buildings where the lobbyists lived had gone all marble and melodramatic. A new class of steak houses hit town: now you can buy a Kobe beefsteak for $175 in some joints. The limos multiplied; McMansions sprouted in the near suburbs. In a way, Daschle - a very decent man, by the way - and his lobbyist wife are the poster children for that lifestyle...
...There is no technology that I am aware of that has gone through more dramatic changes in technology than DNA sequencing and no one associated with Harvard [as Broad is] has done [anywhere] near the volume [of] sequencing as the Broad,” said Kingston in an e-mail. “So this is more a reflection of this technology and the special situation of the Broad...
...part of the fleet, commanded by war hero Admiral John Balchin, that broke through a French blockade of the Tagus river at Lisbon. Returning to England, a fierce storm hit the fleet, first separating the Victory from the other ships, and then sinking it, reportedly near the Channel Islands. The 1,100 sailors on board, as well as the sons of some of Britain's most prestigious families who had signed on for the merchant adventure, disappeared...