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...thing with basic research is that it’s impossible to predict whether there will be applications,” Szostak said. “I studied telomeres just to find something interesting about how cells work. At that time we had no idea that it would have any significance...
...accommodate entrepreneurs starting ventures. A quarterly electronic newsletter invites small-business owners into a local Ikea store for a networking event. Brands that encourage consumers to join their retail communities are hoping for a greater degree of customer loyalty in return. For many, it's too early to predict results, but when asked if she would try out any of the other assembly-meal places opening up around town, Feldpausch replied, "I would feel disloyal if I were to go to another. It's sort of like walking out on a friend...
...while the Pope enjoys his homecoming this week (Monday he traveled to the small Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn where he was born), Vatican insiders say the beginning of the Benedict era back at the Roman Curia begins in earnest this fall. Some, in fact, predict that Bertone - a longtime trusted confidante of the former Cardinal Ratzinger - was handpicked to be Secretary of State in order to usher in a virtual revolution in the way Catholic Church headquarters operates. Through an effort that will be part downsizing, part priority overhaul, the theologian pontiff is said to want Church headquarters...
Whatever the coming months hold, Bush advisers said they could safely predict there would be no more Dr. Phil--speak. The President doesn't fret in private, they say, so he won't in public. A friend said Bush hopes his ultimate legacy will be that he engaged the war on terrorism and started a multigenerational process of winning it, the way Harry Truman began winning the cold war. No one remembers Harry Truman ruminating about the nation's temperament...
...could have predicted that an issue as emotional and as contentious as immigration reform would go down to the wire. But what was not so easy to predict was that Pence, despite his solid conservative credentials, would become a thorn in the sides of some of his fellow conservatives...