Bill Browder went from being Russia's largest foreign investor to being blacklisted from that country. The CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Browder was once a supporter of President Putin - that is until he was expelled from Russia in 2005 after being considered a threat to national security..
A contig is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. In bottom-up sequencing projects, a contig refers to overlapping sequence data; in top-down sequencing projects, contig refers to the overlapping clones that form a physical map of the genome that is used to guide sequencing and assembly.
faggot | fagot, n. 1  4. A bundle of iron or steel rods bound together. 2  5. (See quot. 1851.) â  3 7. A person temporarily hired to supply a deficiency at the muster, or on the roll of a company or regiment; a dummy. Obs. 4  8. = faggot-vote n. 5  9. In various occasional uses: (see quots.).