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...weeks tick on, I continue to be worried that the whole schedule might get off. We'd have to engage a contractor pretty soon, if we want him for May," says Illingworth...
...disaster has changed Russia in general and Putin in particular are wrong. Opinion polls indicate that he has suffered little damage from the botched rescue operation, and public disapproval will probably subside as fast as it blew up. What the Kursk has done, however, is confirm what makes Putin tick...
Biologists have spent much of the past century taking cells apart to figure out what makes them tick. Adam Arkin, 33, a physical chemist who divides his time between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, wants to put the pieces back together again. His goal is to create a computer model of how the cell works so that someday he'll be able to design his own cells from scratch...
...part of the growing importance of individual investors, who want easy, flexible, low-cost diversification. For now, all the action in tradable, pre-fab stock portfolios is with index funds, which are more readily priced tick by tick because they hold the same stocks a long time. Eventually, though, actively managed mutual funds will be continuously priced--and actively traded...
Even if I don't catch something spicy, anticipation keeps me hooked. Every time someone starts digging around in a dresser drawer or whispering in someone else's ear, I wonder what juicy tidbit I'll discover. I want to know what makes each person tick, which one will crack first and who will say nasty things behind someone else's back...