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...aftershocks continue - 50 since Tuesday, according to the Geological Survey of Iran - amid mounting fear that the biggest of all may be yet to come. Iran sits on a major rift; its capital, Tehran, nestles on a spaghetti junction of fault lines. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, head of Iran's International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology estimates that "the possibility of an earthquake measuring more than six on the Richter scale occurring now in Tehran is about 90%." "The government must have more oversight on new building constructions, making sure they obey safety codes," adds Abdollah Saidi of the Geological...
...fondue. tel: (49-7442) 470; www.bareiss.com Jörg Sackmann, the one-star chef at the cozy and plush restaurant Schlossberg, was named the "Christo of the kitchen" by Gault Millau. Sackmann likes to enfold his fish, vegetables, and desserts in elaborate wrappings made of anything from crepes to spaghetti. Try some of his stranger combinations, such as his famous bacon sorbet and pretzel soufflé. tel: (49-7447) 2890; www.hotel-sackmann.de If you're wondering what draws so many excellent chefs to this quiet Black Forest town, Wohlfahrt may have the answer. Baiersbronn has been a stronghold of haute cuisine...
...computer gave him billions of possible amino-acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device. About a minute later, he noticed that the protein was taking form. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti," he says. "I said, 'Oh, my God, we've got structure...
...soaring too. By most accounts, P&G is leading the pack in the race to grab its business. Competitors like Colgate-Palmolive, which imported fabric softener Suavitel from Latin America, and Unilever, with grass-roots campaigns like storefront tastings for brands such as Hellman's mayonnaise and Rag?? spaghetti sauce in Hispanic neighborhoods, are also active. But P&G spent $107 million on Spanish-media advertising in the first nine months of 2004, tops in the U.S. (excluding Lexicon Marketing Corp., which sells products that teach English to Spanish speakers...
...gave him billions of possible amino acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device called an NMR spectrometer. About a minute later, Dahiyat noticed that the V-shaped protein was indeed falling into place. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti. I said, 'Oh my God, we've got structure!'" Thus was born a protein-creation process that Dahiyat calls Protein Design Automation (PDA) and that became the foundation of Xencor. PDA no longer requires supercomputing power but can run on a mere PC. Dahiyat's team is now applying their...