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...worked. And though Target concedes nothing, saying its website "complies with all applicable laws" and that it is "committed to vigorously defending this case," Sexton calls this "a big victory for us," one that helps propel his plan to open a training center for the blind after he graduates from Berkeley...
...striking example of how gene duplication may have helped propel us away from our apelike origins appeared in Science last month. A research team led by James Sikela of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, in Aurora, Colo., looked at a gene that is believed to code for a piece of protein, called DUF1220, found in areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive function. The gene comes in multiple copies in a wide range of primates--but, the scientists found, humans carry the most copies. African great apes have substantially fewer copies, and the number...
Gung-ho marketers like Blain have helped propel XanGo to the fore of the business. The privately held company aims to hit sales of $1 billion by decade's end. "We're ahead of projections on our fourth year," says co-founder Gordon Morton at his orange-hued headquarters in Lehi, Utah. "We're very bullish we'll hit our goal." (Some publicly traded supplement firms also use MLM sales, among them Usana and Nu Skin, with fiscal 2005 revenues of $328 million and $1.2 billion, respectively...
When it comes to anticipating Middle East crises, the oil futures market plays the canary in the coalmine. And the political risk factor that has done most to propel oil prices to record highs over the past six months has been the prospect of war between the United States and Iran. It's not hard to see why: Iran is the fourth-largest supplier in an already tight world market, and its threat to respond to any attack by closing the Straits of Hormuz - the maritime bottleneck through which oil from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States must pass - could...
...Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics. Mosteller later went on to receive his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University.During his sophomore year at CMU, Mosteller encountered a question in one of his classes that would propel him towards a career in statistics—when three dice are rolled, what is the chance that the sum of the faces will be 10?Though all the students in the class got the correct answer by counting on fingers, Mosteller wondered how the problem could be solved for more...