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...Open University's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute in Milton Keynes, England, Pillinger and his colleague Geraint Morgan have built upon research they originally did for the Beagle project in order to create a diagnostic tool with the potential to save countless lives. Their device - about the size of a microwave oven - may not look like much, but it detects tuberculosis (TB), the highly infectious, hard-to-diagnose disease that often infects the lungs and kills more than 1.5 million people worldwide each year...
...global market. He credits a thirst for "antiauthoritarian" products. His sponsorship of ultrasports like street luge and winter surfing has tapped a vein of young male consumers. Mateschitz, a climber and snowboarder, wants to promote a product and a lifestyle. "Extreme sports are more than a marketing tool," he says. At this month's Red Bull Giants of Rio Challenge in Rio de Janeiro, competitors will swim through pounding surf and run 20 km. No wonder Mateschitz is into extreme sports: he says he downs 10 cans of Red Bull a day. By Andrew Purvis/Vienna
...that most students, once forced to go through the process anyway, will take the time to fill out the evaluation conscientiously. At the very least, we will know that delinquent students are truly apathetic. Evaluations should also take the entire longitudinal course experience into account. Currently the course evaluation tool closes before the final exam in most courses, rendering the information gathered for those classes incomplete. Supporters of this policy argue that a bad experience on a final exam could “taint” a student’s evaluation of a course, making it more likely that...
...that Del Vecchio first got to know Brooks. Growing up near Cortina, he worked summers in the tool department of his father's eyeglass factory?a business that eventually grew into the market-leading Luxottica Group and made the family one of the richest in Italy. Though far from the U.S., Del Vecchio and his compatriots knew to revere Brooks Brothers, thanks to Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli and the legendary trips he took to New York City to load up on his favorite button-down shirts...
...think it's a problem that fewer Americans now get their news from traditional sources? -Max Jacobson, New Haven, Conn. We're better off. We have so many more choices. What happens is, of course, that the squeaky wheel continues to get attention. I have a little tool at my house-you should get one-it's called the remote control. You can go from those channels that are showing too much of Anna Nicole Smith to, say, BBC News...