Noting the decline in Chinese public offerings, Sidley Austin partner Robert Pietrzak pointed to investors being scared off by reverse merger developments.

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Almost 42 years after Robert Russell' s prized 1967 Austin-Healey sports car was stolen, he has it back, thanks largely to his own detective work.

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What may unify and solve these puzzles is a theory that was first proposed in 1993 by Robert Duncan of the University of Texas at Austin, and Christopher Thompson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to explain the then newly discovered gamma-ray repeaters.

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