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...considerably. Germs have a second advantage as well: they're a lot more promiscuous than people are. Even though bacteria can reproduce asexually by splitting in two, they often link up with other microbes of the same species or even a different species. In those cases, the bacteria often swap bits of genetic material (their DNA) before reproducing...
...quiet street. They were expecting to meet a middle-aged man from St. Petersburg. In exchange for $1 million, they would hand over an 8-in. by 8-in. metal container holding highly radioactive material. But as the traders and their client were about to make their open-air swap in mid-August, 15 police officers rushed out to grab them. The police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine the material, the , police cannot be sure what it is or where it was stolen from, but they believe it is dangerous...
...higher property values are incentiveenough for Harvard to want Question Nine to pass,he said. This is especially true for when Harvardwants to make a swap involving some of its land,which it has done in the past, Kaufman said
Still, Diller haggled with CBS over the treatment of options to buy 6 million shares of QVC stock. While Diller wanted to swap half the options for new ones in the merged company, Tisch balked at raising the issue before the deal was complete. Diller dropped his request, but it rankled the Tisch camp. "After they got engaged," says a source close to Tisch, "Diller demanded the dowry...
...point changes in currency rates or interest charges. "The speed of money is faster than it's ever been," says Laleen Doerrer, the co-founder of a one-year-old Chicago derivatives firm. "It seems like every day someone has created a new contract and a new swap option. We are almost equally divided between two groups of customers -- one that wants to protect everything it has and the other that wants to make a 200% killing overnight...