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...providing PetroChina with such vital services, UBS squandered a tremendous opportunity to use its leverage to engage PetroChina on its connection to Sudan. Prior to PetroChina’s IPO, an international petition, along with three Nobel laureates, and nongovernmental organizations in 15 countries, called on UBS to make its underwriting of PetroChina contingent upon a change in PetroChina’s behavior in Sudan. Since UBS refused to do so, the focus of the awareness campaign has shifted toward swaying students who are considering UBS as an employer...
...field at the University of Chicago that covered the lab where researchers were developing the atomic bomb. In Watson’s adult years, he made good on his early promise, using his education to rise to the top of the American science scene and win the Nobel Prize. The book is relatively fast-paced and never dwells too long on one subject...
...Each chapter bears a title that begins with some variation on “Manners Learned As” followed by a description of the stage in his life, such as, “Manners Needed For Important Science” and “Manners Appropriate For a Nobel Prize.” These chapter titles are incredibly stiff and disconnected from the rest of the material. It is strange that someone should describe the stages of his life in terms of the “manners” he learned. Furthermore, the chapters rarely discuss Watson?...
...Lessons Learned” sections, Watson gives advice which will not apply to most readers since most people will never become Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Of the pieces of advice that are applicable to the average reader, many are clichéd and lack insight. For example, in the first chapter of the book, Watson’s banal advice is to “Find a Young Hero to Emulate...
...Other tidbits of advice simply come across as pretentious, such as “Avoid gatherings of more than two Nobel Prize winners.” Watson’s rationale: most Nobel Prize winners have had their heyday, so gathering them simply leads to a boring atmosphere anchored in the past. (I doubt most of us stay up late at night worrying about having too many Nobel Prize winners at our next kegger.) Other advice is simply useless, such as “Don’t Take Up Golf.” Watson does occasionally hit the mark...