Word: panning
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...exactly sure who he is, but Thom Yorke of Radiohead begs to be taken away with him. And I don’t know about you, but I’m usually convinced by whatever Thom says. But while “Reckoner” may pan out to be another Radiohead classic, the accompanying video leaves something to be desired. The melancholic video begins in black and white with something that looks very much like the hair on my legs in my worst nightmare and ensures that I’ll never forget to shave them again. In fact...
...continent notorious for tyrants and bloodshed, was human rights. "Obscured by many of the headlines of the past few months, the real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance across a large majority of African countries is improving," said Ibrahim, the billionaire boss of Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone giant, at a press conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Ibrahim inaugurated his foundation last year to promote good governance in Africa...
...Gros of the Centre for European Policy Studies calls the "balkanization" of European banking, with national authorities struggling on their own - or, at best, with one or two neighbors, as in the case of Fortis - to put together piecemeal local solutions. Gros and many others want a more comprehensive, pan-European regulatory framework to be put in place, a plan the European Commission in Brussels is eager to promote. Among other measures, the Commission is proposing a reform of banking-capital requirements...
...demand for cancer drugs, for one, will grow exponentially with this treatment approach. But more important, Roche can now use biomarkers to determine much earlier in the R&D process whether a drug will pan out. Down the pipeline, diagnostics identify which patients most benefit from a therapy, giving clinical trials tailored to that subset a better chance of succeeding. Moreover, any patient for whom the drug wouldn't work or whom the drug could harm can be excluded...
...many contemporary writers can muster Ghosh's panoramic verve - even fewer can wield it with his deftness and poise. His research into 19th century nautical manifests led him to the lascars, a fascinating pan-Asian community of sailors employed aboard nearly all European craft in the Eastern hemisphere. Some of the book's most affecting passages involve their moonlit gatherings aboard the Ibis' deck, singing songs, swapping tales and forging a globalized identity long before such things were ever in vogue...