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...when Hirst is not good? He's still a cash cow. Over the past two decades, with work of very fluctuating quality, Hirst has assembled a net worth that the Sunday Times of London estimated earlier this year at $364 million. The money has bought him a farm in Devon where he lives with his companion Maia Norman and their three sons; a Gothic Revival mansion that he plans to convert into a private museum; and a house in Mexico where the family relocates for three months a year so Maia, who's Californian, can surf. When...
...MMRF model works for a single, specialized cancer, it's not clear that a group like Stand Up to Cancer--which is casting a far wider research net--will show the same results. But clinicians say it's worth trying. "There needs to be a mechanism whereby we can bring groups of people together from different institutions in one group," says DuBois, who is part of SU2C's scientific panel. At the same time, there is hope that the 20% of grants SU2C is setting aside for outside-the-box research will yield something semimiraculous...
...made this $100 million bet, then a $200 million dollar bet,” said Broad, a well-known philanthropist whose net worth is just under $6 billion, according to Forbes magazine. “Now we’re making a $600 million dollar bet that this will be the place in the world where the greatest scientific discoveries will take place...
...question lingered with me as I finished reading Dreams [from My Father]. One of the many things you're wrestling with is the issue of African history. Is globalism - used to be colonialism - on balance, net good or net bad for the world's people? Does it even make sense to talk in those terms...
...might be vulnerable to blackmail - was lifted at the start of the 1990s, but perceptions of Whitehall as a place where it's better to stay in the closet have been harder to shift. "All we're doing is making sure as a prospective employer we're spreading our net as wide as possible to attract the best possible candidates who fully represent the diversity of U.K. society," says a senior Whitehall source. Summerskill suggests that gay candidates may even have an advantage over straight rivals. "If you have grown up as part of a minority community, you're probably...