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...hasn't wasted any time taking his own advice. He and a colleague at Wake Forest have already spun a private business around the study's results - Proactive Genomics, which, like many similar companies that have sprung up recently, will offer a personal genetic test. This one, however, says Xu, will be the world's first genetic screen for a specific disease. To assess cancer risk, patients and doctors currently rely on physical symptoms, age, race, family history and PSA screens - tests that measure blood levels of prostate-specific antigens, which are produced in high amounts by an unhealthy prostate...
...women joined hands, swayed their hips, spun under each other’s arms. They called it Detroit Ballroom...
Denham, which is headed by former Harvard Management Company (HMC) Vice President Stuart Porter, was spun off in June from Sowood Capital, an investment fund backed by an initial pledge of $500 million from Harvard and headed by Jeffrey Larson, another former HMC vice president...
...captain, is hard at work bringing the picket lines to the Internet out of a deep concern for biased media coverage of the strike. “The multimedia conglomerates that rule Hollywood also happen to control most news media in this country and the story is constantly getting spun in their favor,” he says. “We quickly realized we had to get the story out there in a different way, so we created a virtual picket line.”This virtual picket line includes a MySpace page, Facebook pages, and multiple YouTube clips...
Brabeck wants Nestle's management structure to pay less attention to national boundaries, and he has begun to get his way. Nestle's water business is now run as a global operation out of Paris, and its eye-care business was spun off as a separate company, Alcon, with its own stock-market listing. Nestle's most futuristic business, an attempt to develop nutritional supplements that enhance beauty, is being pursued as a joint venture with L'Oreal. But Nestle's national organizations still manufacture much of what they sell locally, controlling the chocolate, milk and most other products they...