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...long been considered a leading researcher in biomedical science, having analyzed the various processes by which normal cells become cancer cells. His pivotal contributions to his field have earned him many distinctions, culminating in the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded after Bishop co-discovered the cellular origin of a type of gene that has the potential to turn normal cells cancerous...
...routinely boasting of the oldest this or the first that. It’s the foolproof response for anyone who dares to question the Way Things Are. But as I prepared to pass the shirt on to a new owner, I decided it was time to pinpoint its origin once...
...first-edition collection of Jane Austen's novels. Churchill is a hit at Asprey. One client bought a Churchill book for George H.W. Bush, and another purchased an inscribed copy of Churchill's secret-sessions speeches for Bill Clinton. There's also a first edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species for the straight-A student in your life...
...Kims are part of a phenomenon sociologists call ethnic niche business, in which an immigrant group comes to dominate an industry, often with no discernible connection to its original culture. Think Chinese and laundry services, Arabs and gas stations, Koreans and groceries. And garments too. Experts estimate that more than half the 144,000 garment workers in Southern California are of Korean origin and up to half the companies are Korean owned. Entrepreneurs of Indian origin today own 38% of all hotels in the U.S. and more than half of budget motels. Mexican Americans whose forebears worked California's vineyards...
...contentious new Medicare bill that had only just narrowly passed through Congress. Two of the videos end with the reporter signing off, “In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting.” Committed to propagandizing equally to all persons, regardless of ethnicity or national origin, the Administration also produced a third video narrated in Spanish and featuring the hard-hitting reporting of “Alberto Garcia.” The White House then distributed the three videos to television news stations without clearly indicating their origins. In all, 40 stations around the country broadcast...