Word: programing
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Kathy McLaughlin, the executive director of the IOP, said the fellowship program furthers one of the primary goals of the IOP, to bridge the gap between academia and practical politics...
...current test for Down's syndrome, but would they wait the month for a verdict that a new, safer test involves? That's the question being debated following the release of a new study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which researchers developed a computer program that can collate the results of two non-invasive procedures carried out a month apart to more accurately establish the presence of Down's syndrome. Although neither a first trimester blood test and ultrasound nor a second trimester blood test offers a definitive answer, a team of British researchers found...
...know one another better or meet for the first time, and will promote loyalty to the company. About 10 members of the club, a continuing Schwab endeavor, will later represent Schwab in a race Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. It will include some 30 corporations, so the program may also be used as a marketing and recruiting device...
Even American Express, which makes much of its money from merchants on its credit and charge cards, is using its popular Membership Rewards program as a fee generator. The company has hiked annual fees in the program 60%, to $40. If you want to link your personal card with your corporate card, that's another $10, please. And if you're late with your card payment, you pay a fee of around $15 and forgo your points for that month--unless you ransom them for another $15. Like many issuers, Amex has added a mandatory-arbitration clause, so customers...
...stirring up mainland Catholics, Beijing is also struggling with the challenge presented by Taiwan?s refusal to back down from its attempts to be treated as a separate state and by an increasing challenge from hard-liners in the Communist Party to put the brakes on an economic reform program which has dramatically increased social instability in China. But barring the pontiff may not help Beijing?s long-term goals. "People in Hong Kong view this as a sign of increasing intervention and control by Beijing in violation of the ?One Country, Two Systems? principle under which the territory rejoined...