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...about $400,000 on condition that she hide the existence of her daughters and forfeit any claim to the family estate. Secrecy meant she could not apply for compensation from JAL. Shocked, grieving and nursing a newborn, Bayly signed. Back in London, they lived on the payoff and with some clandestine help from Yukawa's mother...
...other areas of research, however, the door hasn't been closed to latecomers the way it has with stem cells, and that has the scientific community worried. In order to maximize the medical payoff from stem-cell research, researchers prefer to work with the most robust population of cell lines possible. No one knows, after all, if some lines are more viable than others and if some lend themselves to many uses while others to only a few. If too many of the lines dead-end or die off, research could stagnate. "Some stem-cell uses," says Krause, "will require...
...Maldives, they rendezvoused with another tanker and the Hong Kong crime lord. The palm oil was pumped into the second boat and the first one auctioned, a Filipino outbidding a Thai buyer with an offer of $100,000. Their work over, the captain and his crew collected their payoff and caught a ride to Manila with the new Filipino owner. From there, they flew to Jakarta and split up, laying low in Sangir for a year before returning to Batam, an island city neighboring Babi. The captain has no idea where the palm oil was sold, but says shipowners often...
...must be said, though, that both Richards and McKnight improved throughout the evening, peaking in the final scene which was deftly handled by all. The payoff of the play was achieved, as the actors rose to the quality demanded by the material, the staging, and the lighting...
...usually a pointless exercise. The financial world was like a stockbroker on a cocaine jag - euphoric and volatile and throwing cash around like, well, a stockbroker on a cocaine jag. Greenspan saved his lever-pulling for Fed meetings and put the lawmakers to sleep with boilerplate. The only real payoff to watching was to see how barely Lord Alan disguised his bemusement at the questions posed after his prepared remarks...