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GELDOF This is a political event, not a cultural event. In order to get political momentum, one guy with a banner is not enough. You need millions. The lingua franca of the planet, as we learned from Live Aid, is not English--it's pop music. From Guangzhou to Bogotá, they listen to 50 Cent, Eminem, U2 and Coldplay. Do they listen to the more esoteric individual cultures? No. That's reality. Do they listen to Muddy Waters? I wish they did. Then I'd put a bill up there with him and John Lee Hooker...
...genomes, from modern chimps and ancient cave bears to microscopic bacteria and viruses. As the cost of sequencing each base pair has dropped, from $10 in 1990 to less than 9˘ in 2002 to 1/10 of 1˘ today, researchers are doing more all the time. Although 99% of the planet's genomes have yet to be decoded, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands if not millions of genes, dwarfing the paltry 24,000 or so we carry...
...Goldman Sachs...is as close to a meritocracy as any company on the planet,” he says. “The ego issues are really set aside in terms of what benefits the group...
...appropriate intangibles such as brands, trademarks, business processes and ideas, whether they are protected by a foreign patent or not. The problem has been made worse because China emerged as an economic power around the time when information technologies created highways over which ideas could easily traverse the planet. Just as railroads and telegraphs in the mid-19th century made copyright and patent theft commercially important, so the Internet and associated information technologies redefined the market for inventions. Communications networks allow a tech employee of a Zhuhai company to search patent registrations internationally and look for legal vulnerabilities. IT also...
...could tell that these were people who were coming from a different planet,” he says...