'Survivor' players cashing in on fame

LOS ANGELES - Suffering through weeks of roasted rat andcutthroat competition is beginning to pay for "Survivor"contestants: They're making deals for commercials and productendorsements. Dirk Been, bounced off the island on this week'sepisode, signed a contract to appear in ads for an herbal remedysold by a California couple.

Retired Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch is reported to be making a dealwith a knife company.

Some contestants have retained agents to sort through the offersthat have piled up as the show's popularity increased. CBS also hasa say in what the players do because of a …

Department imposed equity candidate, says school in court.(News)

BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH

THE governing body of a Kraaifontein primary school has taken the Western Cape Education Department to court for interfering with its appointment of a vice-principal to boost the department's employment equity figures.

The case was heard in the Cape High Court by Acting Judge President Jeanette Traverso and Judge Bennie Griesel.

Eikendal Primary School's governing body in 2008 interviewed applicants for the position and, in line with the department's policy, presented a shortlist of three candidates.

The department then appointed a woman, Hilary Petersen, as women were underrepresented provincially at managerial …

Cold flushes out product cycles.

The poor thermal conductivity of plastics materials leads inevitably to a long cooling phase in blow moulding. To counter this there are various super-cooling processes, such as liquid gas cooling with nitrogen or carbon dioxide. These methods are said to be efficient, but it is not well-documented whether, and in what way, the harsh and abrupt cooling negatively affects the quality of the product, what tensions are created in the product by uneven cooling, and whether increased productivity does not demand too high a price in ecological and economic terms.

Compressed air, on the other hand, is found in every blow moulding operation, but is still not well-appreciated as a cooling medium. The reasons may be the assumption that the production of compressed air is very expensive and that compressed air does not have the necessary cooling qualities to make a significant difference. But what would be more logical than to use the available means of production and to unleash a blizzard inside the product with little additional cost and effort?

Before we look at intensified internal cooling we must determine where the critical points in our …

Sangamo BioSciences granted zinc finger DNA-binding protein patent.

Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Richmond, CA) has been granted a United States patent entitled "Regulation of Endogenous Gene Expression in Cells Using Zinc Finger Proteins." The patent includes claims covering the activation or repression of any endogenous gene in any cell type using zinc finger DNA-binding proteins. Similar patents have already issued in the United Kingdom and Australia and counterpart applications are pending worldwide.

"Our pioneering achievements in the regulation of endogenous genes with engineered zinc finger DNA-binding protein transcription factors (ZFP TFs) are the basis for this fundamental patent that covers the regulation of any gene, in any …

On the Writing of the History of Peoples and States

ABSTRACT:

Most national histories are misnamed. This is because they are not the histories of a particular state, as they pretend to be, but rather of the dominant or titular nationality associated with a given state. This essay discusses conceptual problems related to the writing of national histories and then focuses on one-volume histories of three countries: Slovakia, Ukraine, and Poland. The author proposes that national histories should include information about all the nationalities (peoples) who have ever lived within a particular state, and not only the titular nationality.

Ever since the Revolutions of 1989 and the demise of the Soviet Union two years later, …

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The Honorable Jay M. Cohen, Mr. Eric Womble, and Dr. Lawrence Delaney Join Decision Sciences' Board of Directors.

In order to accelerate growth and leverage the technological advances of their homeland security products, Decision Sciences International Corporation (Decision Sciences) has added the Hon. Jay M. Cohen, former Undersecretary for Science and Technology for the Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Eric Womble, Vice President of the Advanced Capabilities Group for Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding; and Dr. Lawrence Delaney, former Acting Secretary of the Air Force, to the Decision Sciences' Board of Directors (see also Decision Sciences).

"Our three new board members bring extensive front line homeland security, government and industry experience to Decision Sciences. We are …