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After speaking at MIT, Zhu attended a luncheon in Boston with a group from Harvard including President Neil L. Rudenstine, University Marshall Richard M. Hunt and Ford Professor of the Social Science Ezra F. Vogel, also director of the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Studies...
...senior citizens raiding their attics, a new class of grass-roots merchants is setting up shop. "It's becoming a way of life," maintains Steve Westly, vice president of marketing at eBay, who himself has amassed a collection of 3,000 toy soldiers. "People love the thrill of the hunt...
Like the quickest kid in the hunt on Easter Sunday, many investors end up with a lot of eggs in one basket. It's not really their fault. The rapid rise of stock-based compensation at work is a primary culprit--and who's going to knock programs that grant stock options and otherwise stuff employee accounts with company shares through stock-purchase, profit-sharing and 401(k) plans? The problem is that many folks end up with their retirement dreams tethered to a single stock...
...that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting astronomers to join the hunt and cajoling Congress into funding it. Even the public began to take notice when, in 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (which he co-discovered) crashed into Jupiter in an awesome demonstration of what could happen here...
...Working with fruit flies, U.S. biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that some genetic traits are sex-linked and that the genes governing these traits are located on chromosomes...