Ault wonders if a 1, 000-patient study will even show a difference between the two vaccines.

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Ault announced an innovative new partnership between BTT and the University of Miami to study bonefish and tarpon.

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At least that's how Ault, the highflying owner of Pangaea sees it.

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"You see this happening often, one generation would make the wealth, and the next two or three will lose it, " Ault says.

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"Whether that has anything to do with protection against disease has not been proven, " says Kevin Ault, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University who consults for both Merck and Glaxo.

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But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels the magic" in Gotham, which still bears the scars of a financial crisis that knocked the wind out of much of its most extravagant party culture.

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Moreover, "there is a mathematical certainty that there is going to be an economic tsunami" at some point, adds Ault, who trained as an economist with degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics and worked on Wall Street before becoming a nightclub owner.

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