Word: centralization
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...times and then blasts the clones into 60 million bits, each between 2,000 and 10,000 letters long. Each fragment is then fed into a high-speed decoding robot. The next step, for Venter, is the most difficult. His robots e-mail their results to Celera's giant central database (said to represent more concentrated computing power than anywhere outside the Pentagon). These computers are using a sophisticated program to reassemble the genome fragments into the familiar 23 human chromosomes. The whole process can be compared to making confetti out of a stack of encyclopedias and then painstakingly reconstructing...
...mortal enemies, China and Taiwan, to work together? Just a Chinese kid who moved to New York City. Hu's Shadow Magic, about a British entrepreneur (Jared Harris) bringing the cinema to China in 1902, is the first film co-produced by the Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corp. Hu, 44, is a child of the Cultural Revolution; her parents were sent to labor camps while she served as a Red Guard. She taught herself English and in 1979 was among the first Chinese sent to U.S. schools. "I was always too stubborn," Hu says...
...virtual logo in the neon adscape behind him, obliterating an existing sign for NBC. In fact, it turns out CBS has used digital image-insertion technology ever since launching the Early Show in November, to plaster that program's logo all over its Manhattan neighborhood--at the entrance to Central Park, on the back of horse-drawn carriages, even on the side of the building that is its host. Last week media critics and competitors gave CBS a poke...
...October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...
...Western Europe. It has gained ground in Britain--one of Budweiser's largest markets outside the U.S.--and the Republic of Ireland, and has built up a following in Italy, Spain and Greece. Similar expansion won't be easy for SAB. Its extensive distribution network in Eastern and Central Europe comes to an abrupt halt at the German border. Without a support organization, it takes a long time to build a brand presence in a mature market. John Wakely, managing director of Lehman Brothers' London office, notes that it took Heineken 30 years to establish itself...