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Google realized while negotiating a deal with Dell that it needed to stretch its existing user base. That May agreement will put Google's toolbar on millions of Dell machines, and it prompted Google execs to seek other such alliances. Those partners "have a way of reaching customers that we do not on our own," Schmidt says, "and each represents a different strategic thrust...
When an inversion, deletion or duplication occurs in an unused portion of the genome, nothing much changes--and indeed, the human, chimp and other genomes are full of such inert stretches of DNA. When it happens in a gene or in a functional noncoding stretch, by contrast, an inversion or a duplication is often harmful. But sometimes, purely by chance, the change gives the new organism some sort of advantage that enables it to produce more offspring, thus perpetuating the change in another generation...
...made in e-mails or other direct solicitations to independent marketers have helped XanGo pass $200 million in sales in 2005. The four-year-old company is just the latest big player in the country's $23.5 billion dietary-supplement trade--much of it based here in an arid stretch of Utah called the Wasatch Front...
...Crimson, and stress about my future without you. Sure, Lamont will soon have a café where procrastinating first-years can update their MySpace.com page while spilling coffee on the reserve books. But the whole point of a “coffee break” is to get up, stretch the legs, and clear your mind while the cold winds outside Wigglesworth make your eyes tear. Your $1 coffee specials are all that get me through reading period. There are countless students like me in need of a smile, a strange brew of Vietnamese coffee, and a fix to cure...
...Bush responded hotly to the news accounts, saying during an East Room appearance on Tuesday: "Here we are, coming down the stretch in an election campaign, and it's on the front page of your newspapers. Isn't that interesting? Somebody has taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes...