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First-place sweep by American girls at first Google Science Fair
Shree Bose, 17-yearold high school junior in Fort Worth, tackled ovarian cancer for a science competition, and that research won her the grand prize and $50,000 in the Google Science Fair last week. For the winning research Ms. Bose looked at a chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, that is commonly taken by women with ovarian cancer. The problem is that the cancer cells tend to grow resistant to cisplatin over time, and Ms. Bose set out to fi nd a way to counteract that. She found the answer in a cellular energy protein known as AMPK, or adenosine monophosphateactivated protein kinase. She observed that when AMPK was paired with cisplatin at the beginning of treatment the combination diminished the effectiveness of cisplatin. But added later on, when the cancer cells were growing resistant, the AMPK worked to maintain the effectiveness of cisplatin, allowing it to continue killing the malignant cells, at least in cell cultures. More than 10,000 students from 91 countries entered the science fair, Google’s fi rst. Girls swept all three age categories in the competition.
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Dow barrels ahead after debt remarks (NY TIMES) — Already rallying on earnings reports, stocks leaped further ahead Tuesday after President Obama announced a breakthrough on the debt-ceiling talks. Earlier, stocks had risen more than 1 percent after Coca-Cola said its net income rose 18 percent on higher overseas sales and after I.B.M.’s results late Monday beat analysts’ estimates. But it was after Mr. Obama spoke that the Dow Jones industrial average powered through a gain of more than 220 points to a high of 12,607.56. The Dow ended the day up 202.26, or 1.63 percent, to 12,587.42. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500stock index rose 21.29 points, or 1.63 percent, to 1,326.73, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite gained 61.41, or 2.22 percent, to 2,826.52. President Obama said there was “progress”
in negotiations with bipartisan lawmakers over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, leading to a deficit-cutting proposal by a bipartisan group of lawmakers that was “broadly consistent” with what the administration was pursuing. Earlier, the Commerce Department said housing starts in the United States rose more than expected in June, reaching a six-month high, and permits for future construction unexpectedly increased. Investors also took in quarterly earnings announcements from three major banks: Goldman Sachs reported a profit of $1.05 billion, a relatively weak showing; Bank of America said it lost $8.8 billion, in line with expectations as it settled legal claims related to its troubled mortgage division; and Wells Fargo reported a 29 percent increase in profit, as loan losses eased.
Scotland Yard in harsh spotlight at hearings LONDON (NY TIMES) — Some of Britain’s most senior police offi cers faced new scrutiny in Parliament on Tuesday in hearings before lawmakers that showed the extent of the interconnections between Scotland Yard and News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire. Sir Paul Stephenson, the outgoing head of Scotland Yard who resigned on Sunday, was forced to defend his relationship with a former news executive for the News of the World, Neil Wallis. He denied any wrongdoing
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in his relationship with Mr. Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor at the time of widespread phone hacking at the newspaper who later was hired as a media consultant for the police. In his testimony, Sir Paul admitted that 10 other former News International employees work in the media relations offi ce of the Metropolitan police service, out of a total of 45 people who work in the office. Mr. Wallis was also a public relations executive at a health spa, Champneys, in Watford, north of London, where Sir
Paul received free hospitality for five weeks this year while recuperating from a leg injury. Mr. Wallis was arrested last week in the police investigation into phone hacking. “When I became aware that Mr. Wallis was in some way connected with Champneys, I thought that was a very difficult story,” Sir Paul said, explaining his resignation. “I thought, ‘This is going to be a signifi cant story, and if I am going to be a leader and do the right thing by my organization, I better do something quickly.’ ”
Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (NY TIMES) — Google thinks it can be young and crazy again. And it is betting $200 million that it is right. In the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade, the Silicon Valley behemoth is playing venture capitalist in a rush to discover the next Facebook or Zynga. Other pedigreed tech companies are doing the same, as venture capital dollars coming from corporations approach levels last seen in the dot-com bubble era of 2000. To some, it is a telltale sign of an overheated industry, symptomatic of a late and ill-advised rush to invest during good times. But Google says it has a weapon to guide it in picking investments — a Google-y secret sauce, which means using datadriven algorithms to analyze the would-be next big thing. Never mind that there often is very little data because the companies are so young, and that most venture capitalists say investing is more of an art than a science. At Google, even art is quantifiable.
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