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Ingenious as it was, Stefansson's plan quickly ran into problems. In order to build a database of genomes, deCODE needed blood samples from as many Icelanders as possible, as well as access to their health records. Parliament granted permission to tap into those records, along with an exclusive license to assemble, maintain and market the resulting data. Thousands of citizens donated blood, and many bought shares in deCODE as well. But those shares, which rose to a high of $65 in a frenzied run-up in 1999 and 2000, plunged to as low as $2 in the collapse...
...learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that she had her first creative breakthrough. When given an assignment to “do something?...
...Torino sales manager for an auto-safety manufacturer. This, added to a general Italian nonchalance, may help explain the lukewarm start to ticket sales: some 30% of the 1 million tickets were still available a week before the torch was to be lit. The city has had to tap public utility sponsors and hold a special national lottery to make up a $77 million shortfall resulting from cost overruns and lower-than-expected government aid in the $1.4 billion operating budget. Security alone is expected to cost more than $120 million to forestall terrorism and less violent protests from antiglobalists...
...edge of irrelevance after a largely wasted 2005. But he found his voice in an improbable place: at the center of what looked like a serious scandal. Bush had personally tried to keep the New York Times from revealing the existence of a White House--authorized program to tap calls coming into and going out of the U.S. without a warrant if they involved a suspected terrorist, and just last week he told the Wall Street Journal, "I'm sorry we're talking about...
DIED. FAYARD NICHOLAS, 91, tap dancer extraordinaire who, with brother Harold, performed gravity-defying fantasias with his feet, inspiring generations of dancers from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover; in Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...