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After 20 years at Harvard Medical School, Professor D. Gary Gilliland will depart to lead cancer research at the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., the company announced earlier this week. While at Harvard, Gilliland gained international recognition for discovering the genetic basis of leukemia and served as director of both the Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Cancer Stem Cell Program for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Gilliland’s latest work harnessed his earlier findings to explore how drugs could be used to treat leukemia. “His expertise in both basic...
...surprise, then, that in the video for their new single “My Turn,” the band members seize upon a video game motif to play dress-up to no end. The video has Hoobastank and their gear sitting atop what appears to be a giant spinning hockey puck, because, with the current state of the NHL, pucks gotta take work where they can get it. Meanwhile, blindingly painful imagery—probably lifted from the iTunes visualizer—provides a psychedelic backdrop. Band members teleport in and out, occasionally popping back into view wearing superhero...
...study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Although it focuses on iron and steel provisions, the "buy American" clause would save just 1,000 U.S. jobs because steel is very capital intensive, the study's authors Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott say. "In the giant U.S. economy, with a labor force of roughly 140 million people, 1,000 jobs or less is a very small number," they wrote. That number, they contend, would be exceeded by the jobs that would then be lost if other countries emulate U.S. policies or retaliate against them...
...standards of India's sluggish judicial system. That's nearly how long it took for the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to get permission from the country's highest court to question the men who were running Satyam Computer Services, India's embattled information technology giant, over the company's $1 billion accounting fraud...
...Satyam and to save some of the jobs of its 53,000 employees. In a statement released on Feb. 2, Satyam claimed to have retained 95% of its top 20 clients and to have won 15 new contracts in January. At least four groups including Indian construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro have shown interest in acquiring a controlling stake...