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Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu desperately want to win over Ron Gadish. An executive at a high-tech firm in the coastal city of Herzliya, Gadish still hasn't made up his mind whom to vote for in two weeks. He views Peres, the incumbent, as visionary but perhaps too starry-eyed. Netanyahu seems more grounded but worrisomely untested. With neither Peres nor Netanyahu yet attracting a firm majority in the polls, the decision in the May 29 prime ministerial election will come down to Gadish's vote and those of the other 200,000 uncommitted Israelis...
Last weekend saw Harvard win the NCAA regional semi-final tournament. The Crimson, coming off nine straight wins prior to the tournament, was the second seed in the four team field. Virginia Tech was the first to fall to the Crimson, by a score...
Harvard (21-8, 8-0 EITA), which is ranked 22nd in the nation, earned its right to the Sweet Sixteen by defeating Virginia Tech and No. 12 Florida in the Regionals of the NCAA Tournament last weekend at Harvard. There were eight such regionals across the nation, and eight other teams recieved first-round byes...
Gustavo De La Riva's lab boasts an imposing assortment of high-tech gear: automated machines for synthesizing DNA, centrifuges for swirling cell cultures, growth chambers for coddling delicate seedlings. There is even a particle gun that genetically transforms sugarcane embryos by peppering them with DNA-coated BBs. But what really impresses foreign visitors is the folding cot that occupies a corner of De la Riva's office. At the Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba, De la Riva explains, researchers strive to stay ahead of the competition by sleeping alongside their experiments...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (May 22). For all the bustle and flash in the trailer for this high-tech retake of the '60s series, the revelation that smites you is: Tom Cruise has a very large nose. This might not matter, since he also has a very large fan base; in the past decade his films have averaged $100 million U.S. gross. See that and raise you $50 million for this Mission...