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Seven Days, If
A senior Iranian official has said Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, if the United States eases military pressure and lifts the blockade of Iranian ports. That is the most concrete sentence produced by seven months of this war, and it arrived alongside some of the least concrete language of it. Iran's General Staff, in a statement carried by the semi-official Mehr agency, described Trump's threats to annihilate Tehran...
The Shop That Bought Every Shop
Yahoo was worth roughly $125 billion at its peak in 2000. It sold to Verizon in 2016 for about $4.8 billion, and Verizon later sold the assets on to Apollo Global Management. The missed deals are the part everyone remembers. In 1998 Yahoo declined to buy Google for $1 million. In 2002 it tried to buy Google for $3 billion, and walked away when Google asked for $5. In the mid-2000s it failed to close an acquisition of Facebook at around $1...
The Wear Ends Up Somewhere
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center examined autopsied brain tissue from participants in the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Of 885 participants, 701 brain samples entered the final analysis: 229 people who had received total shoulder, knee or hip replacements, and 472 without, serving as controls. Cobalt concentration in brain tissue was 8.9 percent higher in the total hip replacement group than in the no-replacement group....
The Ceiling Was a Guess
For years the accepted upper limit for eukaryotic life, meaning any cell with a nucleus, sat at around 140 degrees Fahrenheit, or 60 Celsius, established by a few species of fungi and red algae. Researchers had gone further and proposed a mechanism: above roughly 62 Celsius the internal membranes surrounding a cell's organelles should become unstable, which would make that a fundamental ceiling rather than merely an observed one. In the...
Ninety Percent to Forty in Five Years
Washington H. Soul Pattinson reported statutory net profit after tax of A$2.191 billion for the year to 31 July, up 502 percent from A$364 million. Revenue from continuing operations rose 96 percent to A$1.87 billion. The shares rose 7.5 percent to A$48.94, a new 52-week high. Almost none of that headline is what it appears to be, and the company says so. The increase comes from completing the A$15 billion merger with Brickworks in September...