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...Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, to make the final exam count less towards the students’ final grades. The exam in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics,” allowed students to use their course notes and textbooks. According to a student in the course, Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, a “rumor” circulated in the class that a small group of students, after receiving a tip from a friend, completed the 2004 edition of the test. They were then able to take advantage of the fact that four questions from that version...
...bottom line at a time when she must parry new threats from IBM and Dell. Both have spent the past year bulking up major parts of their businesses, while HP has been on a low-cal diet, trying to restore its flabby enterprises to health. As analyst Bill Shope of J.P. Morgan Chase puts it, "IBM is trying to squeeze HP at the upper end of the market, while Dell is challenging it at the lower end. HP has carved a spot in the middle, but it's not clear if that's where it should...
...discovered that something was making their pigs very sick, with high fevers and bad coughs. No such pig flu had ever been noticed before 1918, but every fall thereafter an influenza-like illness attacked the nation's hog population. In 1928 a researcher from the Rockefeller Institute, Richard E. Shope, went to Iowa to investigate the phenomenon, and in 1930 he became the first scientist to isolate an influenza virus. Copies of it are stored today in laboratories around the world...
...cells. This time they got lucky. They found small pieces of flulike RNA. Their subsequent analysis showed that the virus was an H1N1 influenza unlike any flu virus identified during the past 80 years. The closest known strain was Swine Iowa 30--the pig flu isolated by Richard Shope in 1930 and kept alive at various culture repositories ever since. Their findings suggest that the 1918 virus came to people from pigs, not from birds--although Taubenberger cites studies by Webster and others indicating that human viruses and the pig flu of the 1930s may share a common avian ancestor...
...drugs and get information to the public would be enormously expensive. But the price of doing nothing may be measured in millions of lost lives. Doctors are still hopeful but no longer overconfident. "I do believe that we're intelligent enough to keep ahead of things," says epidemiologist Shope. Nonetheless, neither he nor any of his colleagues will ever again be foolish enough to declare victory in the war against the microbes...