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Today, as director of the Novartis Research Foundation's new Genomics Institute, Schultz is boning up on genetics. But he also keeps one foot planted in pure science. His lab at the Scripps Research Institute, where he starts his day by 5 a.m., uses combinatorial methods to study everything from nanotechnology to organ regeneration. His scientists have invented 80 new amino acids and used them to make proteins seen nowhere in nature, and they are trying to create an artificial bacterium with two extra bases in its DNA and five unnatural amino acids in its proteins. "The question is," says...
...Rabbi Yosef appeared to recant Monday, telling Israeli TV that his comments had been intended as a theological explanation of the Holocaust, but that he believed that all 6 million killed "were holy and pure and complete saints." But the impact of his original remarks won't be that easily reversed. The Holocaust remains the single defining event in Israel's conception of its nationhood, with the Yad Vashem museum the obligatory starting point for any visiting head of state. Against that backdrop, the rabbi's remarks are a telling sign of the depth of division Israel will confront even...
...before we go proclaiming the GOP victors in the foreign policy beauty contest, we ought to consider their own record. President Clinton might have pioneered a dysfunctional and dangerous cruise-missile diplomacy, but he's never matched the cynicism and pure "Dr. Strangelove" nuttiness of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada. That from the same administration that gave us Iran-Contra and shipped Stinger missiles to the likes of Osama Bin Laden back in the '80s simply because they were fighting the Soviets. And it was the Bush administration, after all, that not only stood back when...
...BOOM This year's steady recovery by big drug companies, coupled with a downturn in the technology sector, has made health-sector funds robust performers. While pure bio-tech funds may be too high risk for many investors, a more diversified health-care fund can provide a good, long-term portfolio addition. Near term, there could be a few bumps, though: some drug patents are expiring, and drug prices are likely to be a hot issue in the upcoming election...
...That's the latest challenge facing today's gustatory snobs, who in this age of excess must find new ways to set their palates apart from those of the masses. Let them eat Milky Ways and M&M's. The true elite prefer dark chocolate, these days known as pure dark or grand cru or vintage or whatever other nomenclature specialty companies such as Sharffen Berger, E. Guittard, Michel Cluizel or Chocolove dream up. What's in a name, you ask? According to a recent survey by the National Confectioners Association, nearly 30% of consumers now prefer dark chocolate...