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...around to check that no one I know is present to witness the act. This reaction must be a throwback to the grocery store checkout lines of my youth in which my gaze at the magazine’s dirty cover was liable to ignite a rant from whatever adult I was with on the decline of modern society...
Still, the science is remarkable. Since hearing S.R.D.'s story, the researchers have analyzed a total of 14 children and one adult at the eye hospital. All of them have shown significant improvement in less than a year. While most were treated surgically, the adult--a 29-year-old man with congenital aphakia (an eye missing its lens)--just needed a pair of glasses. Eighteen months later, he was able...
Remember Your Childhood Indulge in a cinematic exploration that harks back to those glorious, care-free days of childhood with a visit to the New England Aquarium to see “Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari!” New England Aquarium, Adult...
...really know the true motives of the evildoers who continue to deny Sherley tenure, we can speculate on the reasons. Perhaps, for example, it was because he refuses to join in “mainstream” research. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, will not work with anything but adult stem cells while most of his colleagues in the field believe the focus should be on fetal stem cells. Could this have been an issue? Of course not, it was probably all because Sherley is black. (Never mind the fact that Phillip L. Clay, MIT’s chancellor...
...Nine months ago, after being held in a number of traditional juvenile detention centers, he arrived at the school, a two-toned brown building across a grassy field from his cottage named "Esperanza," Spanish for hope. In April, he will receive his adult sentence, which he has already pleaded down from a possible life term to anywhere from 1 to 30 years - and is trying to negotiate even further downward. Chavarria arrived at Foothill unable to read, spell or understand math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay...