Joe Company, HarleyDavidson inc., American International Group inc., Bed Bath & Beyond inc. during the 3-months ended 09/30/2007, according to the most recent filings of his investment company, Markel Gayner Asset Management corp. Tom Gayner owns 76 stocks with a total value of $2 billion. Joe Company, HarleyDavidson inc., American International Group inc., Bed Bath & Beyond inc. during the 3-months ended 09/30/2007, according to the most recent filings of his investment company, Markel...

Part 1: Flu research: a legacy of neglect Part 2: Vaccine production capacity falls far shortPart 3: H5N1 poses major immunologic challengesPart 4: The promise and problems of adjuvantsPart 5: What role for prepandemic vaccination?Part 6: Looking to novel vaccine technologiesPart 7: Time for a vaccine 'Manhattan Project'?Bibliography. Part 1: Flu research: a legacy of neglect Part 2: Vaccine production capacity falls far shortPart 3: H5N1 poses major immunologic challengesPart 4: The...

Africa's governments, its industry and its research institutions are well aware of the potential that agricultural biotechnology holds if applied in other ways and to indigenous crops. The genes incorporated into the crops include those that confer insect, fungal, viral and bacterial resistance, protein quality improvements, herbicide tolerance, and salt and drought resistance. The sweet potato trials met some setbacks because it is believed that the construct for the virus resistance was...

The grants from Smithfield Foods were negotiated in 2000 in a 25-year commitment of $50 million to help clean up hog farm waste lagoons. woman died after a boulder struck her as she bicycled with a group of friends in a Virginia state park. A former Marine and airline pilot was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday for traveling to Charlotte to engage in sexual conduct with a 10-year-old girl. Cooper, who lived in the Granite Falls area, had been sitting in the back middle seat...

Companies as diverse as Wolfgang Puck and Burger King are impressing sensitive consumers with meals featuring eggs from so-called cage-free hens or pork from pigs not confined to crates or small barn stalls. The percent of animal products that animal rights activists would call "humanely raised and slaughtered" remains small compared with that from industrial-type production methods. It often means more acres of expensive farmland to allow animals more space, and longer waits before they...