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...He listened to rousing choruses of songs about the fjords and avoided the locals’ attempts to matchmake him and widen the Icelandic gene pool. “It had this very strong idea of community,” Ensall said....
...Meanwhile, Disney has adopted a tactic as old as activist investing itself by bringing in a white knight in the shape of ValueAct — a so-called friendly activist....
...Dealmaker brings golf’s US Open to Tinseltown As a Goldman Sachs M&A rainmaker, Gene Sykes has given careful advice to the likes of Disney’s Bob Iger....
...Flying the coop JPMorgan’s rescue of First Republic triggered an exodus of wealth advisers from the regional lender, many of which flocked to its white knight’s rival Morgan Stanley, Forbes reports....
...It even merits a mention in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, when the Knight recalls fighting there....
...The case against Gene Levoff stands out because he was responsible for policing insider trading within Apple, according to the SEC. Full story here. Now back to the show . . ....
...Tracy-Gene Durkin DirectorSterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox When Tracy-Gene Durkin began her legal career 30 years ago, one of the most important early decisions she made was to focus on design patents....
...Several of the genes also turned out to be involved in memory....
...Chess rules do not evolve; white queens do not marry black bishops, nor do pawns rise up against their knights....
...Gene geniuses: The announcement last week by scientists in China that they had cloned a pair macaque monkeys not only raises profound ethical questions, writes Anjana Ahuja....
...“To think,” I reminisced, “when I was younger, I sometimes used to keep those stickers as a memento . . . ” (Great Uncle Ron was a stamp collector — it’s in my genes.)...
...Indeed, Spector claims that examining the DNA of our microbiome is much better for predicting obesity than looking at human genes....
...A spectacular mash-up of knights, Roman legionaries and magical animals....
...A highly resistant bacterial gene known as NDM-1, for example, was first discovered in New Delhi seven years ago and has since been found in the US, UK and Japan....
...Gene and Marge Nelson house two snowmobiles, two motorcycles and two scooters in their chrome-lined “fun cave” at AutoMotorPlex....
...The multitude of knights of the realm in the GSK boardroom hints at the company’s importance to the UK. Only HSBC, BP and Shell are larger by market capitalisation among the FTSE 100 blue-chips....
...It’s a skill; there’s no global dexterity gene. Are business schools missing an opportunity here? A lot of business schools do short-term immersion trips and have this idea that: “We are global....
...Diagnostic products maker Myriad Genetics lost 4.8 per cent to $23.70 as a US Federal Court ruled that its patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancers were invalid....
...Removing the gene in mice confirmed its role in regulating inflammation and disease, according to a study in the journal Nature....
...Pathway to nerve regeneration Scientists at the University of Utah have identified a gene in a worm that plays a critical role in regenerating damaged nerve cells and demonstrated that, by making the gene...
...Lung cancer suppressor gene identified Scientists have identified the gene that protects the body from lung cancer....
...Sam Knight is a regular contributor to FT Weekend Magazine. Do you have a question for the world’s cleverest person?...
...Those showcased here – Georg Baselitz’s sunburst yellow double upside-down portrait “Adieu”, Markus Lüpertz’s elaborate “The False Knight Heine Rescues Hölderlin the Virgin”, A.R....
...Environment, nutrition and chance then affect how genes are used....
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