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...STARTED Popular with athletes in Austria, its country of origin, before it hit clubs...
Russian immigrant Viatcheslav "Steve" Abramian claims the University discriminated against him on the basis of national origin, firing him in 1993 in retaliation for complaints he made about anti-Russian slurs and other abuse from fellow guards...
...page opinion written by Judge Francis X. Spina, the SJC gave detailed accounts of incidents in which Abramian was harassed by other guards, saying "Abramian was subjected to demeaning slurs about his national origin...
Proof at the genetic level that origin means more than location is coming in. Researchers at Stanford have been studying liver, breast, prostate and lung cancers for clues to their telltale molecular fingerprints. Using microarrays to sense which genes are turned on in sample tissues, says geneticist Charles Perou, the Stanford team has discovered that most of the genes expressed by both normal breast cells and primary-breast-cancer cells are similar, and so are cells for normal lung tissue and lung cancer, normal prostate and prostate cancer, and so on--which should ultimately give doctors biochemical identifiers to guide...
...does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have one of the highest per capita incomes of any immigrant group in the U.S. "It is a credit to this country that someone from a distant land can become an American," says Suhas Patil, founder and chairman emeritus of semiconductor manufacturer Cirrus Logic (1999 revenues: $564 million...