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...Type 1 diabetes, the most debilitating form of the disease, it may lie in a revolutionary new field of research based on manipulating human embryonic stem cells. These building blocks of life, when isolated in a microscopic cluster of cells, can morph into any kind of tissue. (So-called adult stem cells, which can be harvested without sacrificing embryos, can turn into only a few tissue types.) One day, scientists hope, the entire genetic makeup of a patient like Zucker could be transferred into a cloned human egg that can produce the insulin-producing cells her body lacks...
...SHOW. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SUCH A THING AS CROSSING THE LINE IN COMEDY? I guess you can do that if you do an insulting ethnic joke or something like that. I work blue, very blue, you know. But I'm also working in Vegas for an all-adult audience. Sometimes I see parents walking out of the show with their kids who are, like, 10 years...
...Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future. Its ditzy slapstick is like the peanut-butter-and-jelly mix Goober Grape--if you didn't love it as a kid, you're not going to acquire the taste as an adult--and the pop-culture gags (like rock star Jet Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic of gee-whiz atomic-age modernism. Most of all, it's touching to look back at the show's optimistic imagined future...
...Harvard—in the first-year dorms, the College should use those prime proctor suites to house undergraduates who can help first-years cope with the difficulties that they so recently experienced. If the Yard had one proctor per dorm, first-years would have more than enough adult supervision, if the College really believes adult supervision is what first-years need. This would encourage inter-class interaction—a stated goal of the curricular review—more effectively than a Yale-like housing system, and it would not compromise students’ ability to choose their House...
...North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, Easterling oversees HT programs for adult day care, at-risk teens, adults with developmental disabilities and patients with Alzheimer's. HT is also a valuable tool for treating depression and substance abuse. "It's about using plants as the tool to reach therapeutic goals," says Easterling, who began her career as a clinical social worker but became frustrated when "words were not enough to reach some patients." By using plants, she says, you "create a connection with the natural world. Learning that you can take care of a living thing and it responds...