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...Lowdown: St. John's narrative is laced with intimate portraits and fresh figures - did you know the resale value of a stadium's worth of tickets exceeds $500 million, or that Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on game day? - that enliven the organizational challenge of carrying off the world's biggest bash without a hitch. The choice to ignore the superstars on the field in favor of the game's unsung laborers is a refreshing angle, even if he seems half-ready to douse them in Gatorade. Readers' reactions will likely hinge on whether they consider the Super...
...right four genes and inserted them into the cells aboard retroviruses, he wiped the cells clean, reprogramming them and returning them to an embryo-like state without ever creating the embryo. Four genes, he told his audience, was all it took to undo a lifetime's worth of delicate genetic tapestry. No need for eggs, no need for embryos. Could it be that easy? Were the debate and controversy over embryonic stem cells now rendered moot? "It was unquestionably unexpected," says Melton of the breakthrough...
...ruin a company's reputation. Google, which now handles some 70% of U.S. Internet searches and has become one of the world's most trusted brands, sits at the nexus of these changes. If beleaguered captains of industry hope to survive in the Internet age, Jarvis argues, it's worth considering what Google might do in their increasingly uncomfortable shoes. Jarvis, proprietor of the influential media blog BuzzMachine, gleans maxims from Google's successful strategies that occasionally sound like doublespeak (Free is a business model! Abundance is the new scarcity! Correcting yourself enhances credibility!). But they boil down to practical...
...from the Federal Reserve), the value of everybody's assets was $56.5 trillion. The value of our liabilities (public and private) was $56.4 trillion. Given what has happened to real estate and the stock market since Sept. 30, it seems certain that we now owe more than we are worth...
...because he plans to close the bookstand, O’Brien said he will accept $9,000 worth of retroactive SSI checks to purchase supplies and rent a U-Haul for his journey. He said his knowledge of herbs, tinkering, and bartering will ensure that he will never have to panhandle again...