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...Cellular Biology will have to vacate their labs in the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building by the spring of 2010.The renovated space in Fairchild and the adjacent Bauer Laboratory will be made “denser and more efficient” for the stem cell researchers. The new design, already used in the massive Northwest Science Building, separates administrative office space from the actual laboratories, which feature tightly packed rows of counters in a large open expanse.“Students and postdoctoral fellows can intermingle and talk to each other and learn not only from their own [Principal Investigator...
...financial giant American Insurance Group began wading into a world of new and complex financial instruments, putting hundreds of billions of dollars on the line, the company’s top brass was unconcerned.AIG had hired Gary B. Gorton—a financial economist at Yale—to use quantitative models to project the worst case scenario for the company’s balance sheet.Using historical data, the models predicted a rosy future not too-unlike the recent, prosperous past, giving AIG’s leadership confidence in entering uncharted markets.But by last September, one of AIG?...
...words that characterize John McHugh are class and service, and in this new job he will once again be able to use both." - Senator Charles Schumer (AP, June...
...elect a new, 736-member Parliament. However, a survey earlier this year found that only 34% of eligible voters are likely to do so. This apathy spurs the rise of the mavericks: since most Europeans still do not know who their MEPs are or what they do, they use their votes instead to punish incumbents. (Read "Why So Few Care About the European Parliament Elections...
...have ordered inspections and procedures to try to eliminate the problem. "In these fly-by-wire systems, one never really knows if one has checked out all possible combinations of events to make sure that the computer properly reacts," Weber says of modern flight control. Fly-by-wire systems use computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight. Electronic systems are more reliable than mechanical processes but are prone to software errors that can't always be anticipated. "There could be some other sequence of events that could cause another bad software reaction," says...