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...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
...ability of Britain and the U.S. to create millions of jobs, and is promising to deregulate France's labor market in an effort to end what he calls the nation's "immobility." In a pre-election debate on May 2, he singled out the U.K., along with Ireland, Sweden and Denmark, lauding them for their success in combatting unemployment. That sort of attitude drew flak, with opponents painting him as an American-style neoconservative, but that didn't stop him winning. "He's as economically liberal as it's possible to be for a French politician," says Grant...
...research. Scientists have discovered that triptans, besides affecting serotonin pathways, also directly block one of the stimulatory proteins released by the nerve endings in the dura. New compounds that target this protein, dubbed cgrp, are being tested in Europe. One big problem, says Lars Edvinsson of Lund University in Sweden, "is that the drug can be given only intravenously. We need a cgrp blocker that works as a tablet...
...Population Genetics. The findings are significant not only for their medical importance, but also because of the international, private-public partnership among several research groups. The Diabetes Genetics Initiative, a collaboration founded in 2004 among experts from the Broad Institute, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, and Lund University in Sweden, shared their findings with two others groups, one based in the U.K. and one in Finland. Together, the three groups of scientists published their results in last Thursday’s online edition of Science. They also agreed to collaborate further in attempting to discover genes that are not currently...
...Centre's mission to break down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people. A British Sign Language phone phrasebook should be released in the next year, plus the Centre has started to build a basic foreign-language phrasebook at www.deafstation.org, which will allow signers from Britain, Germany, Spain and Sweden to speak to each other...