Word: fielding
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Generators like Calpine and Duke Energy (whose stock is up more than 20% this year) that sell their power to providers outside their home base are favorites. Peco and Louisiana-based Entergy, the nation's third largest power producer, have even embraced the once imploding field of nuclear energy, seizing on it as a lucrative way to produce power for the spot market. "Nuclear was viewed as an albatross--you just tried to survive it," says J. Wayne Leonard, CEO of Entergy. Leonard is spending $4.5 billion buying up nuclear plants at garage-sale prices. So far, his strategy seems...
...while rare, often ran in families. Could it be, they wondered, that the culprit was a mutant version of the APP gene? In 1991 scientists at London's St. Mary's Hospital Medical School screened the DNA of an Alzheimer's family and found what every geneticist in the field had been furiously looking for. The mutant APP gene sat on chromosome 21, and the single change in its DNA sequence occurred in the vicinity of the beta-amyloid fragment...
...them got to be first as long as someone was." And yet, as Tanzi observes in his soon to be published account of the Alzheimer's wars--Decoding Darkness (Perseus, $26)--there is another way to look at the extreme contentiousness that has for so long characterized the field. He believes "that the hot sparks of conflict, singeing so many of our butts, were making us charge forward as fast as we could...
...very elegant and eloquent extension of Harvard University in the field of letters," Shinagel says. "The quality of the work, the people who are invited to participate, in particular in the issues that are dedicated to a major poet: that's very much Stratis' work...
...HUPD recorded a call from a resident reporting loud noise coming from the athletic fields. Officer reports loud noise was coming from a Gospel church gathering located in the Public Theater on Soldiers Field Road...