Word: parkes
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That explains why the venture vultures are circling. According to Allan Will, chairman of Split Rock Partners, a VC group based in Menlo Park, Calif., the attraction is the speed to market, compared with, say, a surgical device. Clinical costs for a cardiovascular tool, for example, could reach $70 million, and it could take six years before it's marketable; for an aesthetics device, the costs and time frame are half that...
...plays when it struck. "The marrow turns tepid, the skin spongy, the eyes dry, the feet stepping ahead in a flat counting-to-ten kind of way," he writes. "You begin to identify with inert objects. A fence post, a wardrobe, a cut stump in the park. You see these things and see yourself in them: a dead thing with a faint memory of flowing sap." Gurr respects the stealthy enemy, in a way, but he also knows its vulnerability. "Each episode erases the most important memory of all: that it passes...
...coaching staff, a different training regiment and a renewed vigor weren’t enough to keep the men’s cross county team out of the Ivy League cellar, as the Crimson once again finished last at the Heptagonal Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City this past weekend, placing No. 8 out of eight teams with a score of 174. The women’s cross country team fared no better than the men’s, also finishing No. 8 out of eight teams with a score of 237. “Going into...
...excitement over the Wollemi started in 1994 when a hiker named David Noble stumbled upon the previously unknown tree while exploring Wollemi National Park, a wilderness area that covers more than a million acres outside Sydney. Experts at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens pronounced the finding a new genus and decided to keep the trees' location secret, since poachers would value its scarcity and thus commercial value...
...DIED. Choi Kyu Hah, 87, former Prime Minister of South Korea who served briefly as the country's 10th President following the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee; in Seoul. After replacing the dictatorial Park, Choi, a former professor and long-serving bureaucrat, released opposition leaders from prison and promised elections and a new constitution. But his moderate reforms were cut short after a cabal of generals seized power later that year, leaving Choi President in name only. He resigned in 1980 in the wake of the Kwangju massacre, in which over 200 pro-democracy activists were killed...