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...concert turned out to be my favorite. The next day, Saurday Jan.13, had its high points - R.E.M. turned in a great set - and Sunday, January 14, the hard rock night, featured not only Pato Fu, a promising local hard rock band, and Nacao Zumbi, a cool local electronica outfit, it also Guns N' Roses, and they're always interesting to make fun of (at 3 a.m. on Saturday, there were about a dozen kids waiting outside of Axl Rose's hotel, waiting for a glimpse...
...company with issues before Congress. And Cheney will be paid by corporations that may sooner or later lobby her husband's Administration. She was wise to drop her affiliation with Lockheed Martin, a corporation with much to gain from Bush Administration decisions, but American Express has its own lobbying outfit on Capitol Hill and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to persuade politicians to vote its way on tax and banking issues...
...kill a fungus without harming its host? Researchers are pursuing a variety of novel approaches. One Florida-based outfit, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, is searching for antifungal compounds in a coral-encrusted black sponge found in the Indian Ocean. Merck is expected to get FDA approval this year for a novel class of antifungals derived from Spanish soil...
...Find a rabbi It helps to have your nomination shepherded by someone the Senators know from the Palm restaurant or the links at Burning Tree. If Bob Dole or Bob Strauss isn't available, hire a p.r. outfit like Hill & Knowlton. It shows you're a player...
...INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as chairman of the board), it claims credit for identifying many of the human genes used in research today. TIGR (pronounced Tiger) now concentrates on microbial and plant genomic research, the results of which it publishes free on its website: www.tigr.org...