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Giancarlo started from pole position, making an excellent start to lead the field through the first hairpin turn and round the first lap. An accident further down the field called for a safety car to be deployed and, despite strong defence on the restart he was unable to hold off the KERS-equipped Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen. Giancarlo then matched Kimi’s lap times lap after lap until they pitted on exactly the same lap (lap 14). Rejoining just metres from Kimi, Giancarlo continued to shadow the Ferrari until his second stop, which again came on the same lap (lap 31). Giancarlo was generally quicker than the Ferrari but Kimi’s use of KERS kept him ahead, leaving Giancarlo just 0.939secs away from scoring an unprecedented win.
Adrian Sutil had started from 11th position but was unfortunately a victim of a start line accident that cost him his front wing. The German was forced to pit and rejoined far down the field. A strategy adjustment to a one-stopper gave him opportunity to move to 9th position, pulling off some spectacular overtaking maneouvres in the process. He again finished a strong race within sight of the points in 11th position.

In Fisichella's own words

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The biennial survey of business schools is done by Forbes.
The ranking of M.B.A. programs is based on the return on investment achieved by the graduates from the class of 2004. They surveyed 17,000 alumni at 103 schools and heard back from 24% of those grads. They compared their earnings in their first five years out of business school to their opportunity cost (two years of forgone compensation, tuition and required fees). They adjusted for cost of living expenses and discounted their earnings gains using a rate tied to money market yields.

NON-US B Schools (1 year):
1. Insead, Fountainbleau, France and Singapore
2. IMD Lausanne Switzerland
3. IE Madrid Spain
4. Cambridge (Judge), Cambridge UK
5. Oxford Oxford, UK
6. Cass Business London UK
7. Lancaster, Lancaster UK
8. SDA Bocconi, Milano, Italy
9. Cranfield Wharley End UK
10. HEC Montreal Quebec

Non-US B schools (2 year)
1. London Business London UK
2. Manchester, manchester UK
3. IESE, barcelona Spain
4. Ceibs Shanghai China
5. Ipade, Mexico
6. York, toronto, Canada
7. HEC Paris France
8. Esade Barcelona Spain
9. Australian School of Business, Sydney
10. British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia

For US Top 10 B schools see the image below, with all the details

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Nouriel Roubini

This week, I take a look at which countries have best weathered the global recession and credit crunch. All economies have been affected by the crisis, but a combination of policy responses and strong fundamentals has given some countries, especially some emerging market economies, a relative edge. These same strengths could lead the countries I highlight below to perform better as the global recovery begins, even if their growth rates remain well below 2003-07 trends.

What do these countries have in common? One major theme is that they tended to have lower financial vulnerabilities due to more restrictive regulation and less developed financial markets, as well as larger and stronger domestic markets that sustained domestic demand. Moreover, they had the resources to engage in countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies, actions that were not possible in past crises. In contrast, countries that borrowed heavily to finance domestic consumption in the days of easy money are now facing sharp economic contractions. Despite the relative strength of these countries, however, their ability to return to sustained growth will depend on structural reforms that support consumption.

Brazil Peru Australia China India The Philippines Indonesia Ploand Norway France Canada Egypt Qatar Lebanon

The article gives details about the resistant and quick recovery of each of these nations.
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A major breakthrough in understanding the AIDS virus. This might lead to invention of cure for the fatal disease. Now since the genome is known, experiments need to performed to see the reaction of this genome towards different chemicals or radiation and if the growth of virus is halted, we will be having able to cure HIV. Below is the abstract of the paper published in Nature.
Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome

Joseph M. Watts1, Kristen K. Dang2, Robert J. Gorelick5, Christopher W. Leonard1, Julian W. Bess Jr5, Ronald Swanstrom3, Christina L. Burch4 & Kevin M. Weeks1

1 Department of Chemistry,
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering,
3 Linenberger Cancer Center,
4 Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA
5 AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA

Single-stranded RNA viruses encompass broad classes of infectious agents and cause the common cold, cancer, AIDS and other serious health threats. Viral replication is regulated at many levels, including the use of conserved genomic RNA structures. Most potential regulatory elements in viral RNA genomes are uncharacterized. Here we report the structure of an entire HIV-1 genome at single nucleotide resolution using SHAPE, a high-throughput RNA analysis technology. The genome encodes protein structure at two levels. In addition to the correspondence between RNA and protein primary sequences, a correlation exists between high levels of RNA structure and sequences that encode inter-domain loops in HIV proteins. This correlation suggests that RNA structure modulates ribosome elongation to promote native protein folding. Some simple genome elements previously shown to be important, including the ribosomal gag-pol frameshift stem-loop, are components of larger RNA motifs. We also identify organizational principles for unstructured RNA regions, including splice site acceptors and hypervariable regions. These results emphasize that the HIV-1 genome and, potentially, many coding RNAs are punctuated by previously unrecognized regulatory motifs and that extensive RNA structure constitutes an important component of the genetic code.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board of directors.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Schmidt would have had to recuse himself from large portions of the company's board meetings. That's because Google Inc. is entering more of Apple's core businesses, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer and gadget maker said. Jobs said the decision was mutual.

The decision comes a few months after Schmidt expressed confidence that a government inquiry into his role on Apple's board won't find any evidence that the ties between the two companies throttle competition in mobile phones and elsewhere.

He said in May, in a media session ahead of Google's annual shareholder meeting, that he hasn't considered stepping down as an Apple director because he doesn't view the company as a "primary competitor."

Schmidt had been on Apple's board since August 2006. His resignation comes as the Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Google's common ties with Apple might discourage competition.

Google's Android operating system is used in mobile devices that compete with Apple's iPhone. And Google is also developing a free operating system based on its Web browser, Chrome. Meanwhile,

Google has recently turned its 2007 acquisition of GrandCentral into Google Voice, which assigns a unique phone number to each user and lets the user direct calls to that number to any other phone line.

Relationships between the two company haven't always been smooth. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission sent letters to Apple and Google — as well as Apple's iPhone partner in the United States, AT&T Inc. — seeking more information on Apple's rejection of Google Voice's application for the iPhone.

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