In a pair of papers to be published soon in Analytical Chemistry, Dr Porter describes how he and his graduate students ran a slender glass stick larded with magnetic nanoparticles through a GMR reader.

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The troubles "cut to the heart of everything Indiana people like to think about themselves: Don't cheat and graduate kids, " said Fred Glass, Indiana's third-year athletic director.

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Glass, a Stanford Business School graduate who helped Jerry Jones buy the amazingly undervalued Dallas Cowboys back in 1989, has been investing in stocks long enough to know that truly great investment opportunities only come along once a decade or so.

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