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...they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything of roughly the right size and smell. In the end, the engineers came up with little wheeled robots shaped like matchboxes and perfumed with eau de roach...
...company invited 150 analysts to a seminar in Miami last October that was the highlight of its investor-relations campaign. But on the evening before the seminar started, Brabeck let slip over drinks that Nestle had an option to acquire the French cosmetics company L'Oreal in 2004. When the markets opened the next morning, Nestle stock tumbled on fears about what such an acquisition would do to its already growing debt. Brabeck kicked off the seminar with an angry lecture, complaining that his remarks had been misinterpreted and reading aloud extracts from the option agreement with L'Oreal...
...says no. In addition to never winning the league, the Crimson has only finished second once, back in 1971, while every other Ivy school has snagged at least part of one crown since league play began in 1956. More recently, Harvard saw promising title chances in 2003 and 2006 slip away as the team faltered in the heat of Ivy play.The critics dislike Harvard’s chances this year as well. The preseason media poll gave first- place votes to five teams, none of them located in Cambridge. That was generous compared to several publications. Athlon and Street & Smith...
...women’s volleyball team wrapped up its season this weekend by splitting a pair of Ivy League home games at Lavieties Pavilion. The Crimson was victorious Friday against Columbia before letting a 2-0 lead slip away Saturday against Cornell. Harvard (8-18) finishes the season in seventh place with a 3-11 league record, ahead of only winless Columbia. Princeton claimed the Ivy League title and capped off a perfect season with a 3-1 victory Saturday over Yale. CORNELL 3, HARVARD 2 The Crimson looked poised to finish its season strong after getting...
...Krawcheck runs Citi's wealth-management division, a bright spot in the most recent earnings report, and she's a dark-horse contender for the top job. Rubin, already known for the cryptic nature of his utterances at Treasury, seems to have taken her words to heart, letting little slip in public...