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...that's if things go according to plan. Holders of $27 billion in GM bonds have refused the company's debt-for-equity swap, making bankruptcy all but inevitable. For purist capitalists, the lasting significance of GM's pending Chapter 11 (and Chrysler's bankruptcy, filed a month ago) is the overwhelming intrusion into the private sector by Barack Obama and his auto task force at Treasury. "The day they fired the CEO of General Motors" - Rick Wagoner was dismissed by task-force co-chairman Steve Rattner in late March - "is a day we will look back on with great...
...Make that nearly fruitless. Marchionne, CEO of Italy's Fiat, had sniffed an opportunity lurking by the Chrysler deathbed. Chased from the American market a generation ago by its comic reputation for poor quality, Fiat seemed an unlikely rescuer. But Marchionne entered the picture as the It boy of the auto world, having slashed costs, retooled management and refreshed styling to boost sales of the firm's cute little cars. He wanted back into the U.S., provided it didn't cost him anything. (Watch TIME's video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...
...some actually growing smaller. Most of the larger members of the feliform suborder - which includes large cats as well as hyenas and mongooses - pretty much stuck with the brain size they had from the start. The extinct bear-dog - a family of animals that died out 9 million years ago and were, as their name suggests, related to both bears and dogs - actually became more pea-brained over time. Common dogs, like humans, have enjoyed a comparatively recent expansion of cranial capacity...
...include the first advice regarding exercise during pregnancy, reflect new data on prenatal health as well as several recent shifts in the obstetric landscape - pregnant women in the U.S. are now older, more likely to deliver multiple births and ethnically more diverse than they were 20 or 30 years ago. But far and away, the IOM's greatest new concern is the increased population of overweight and obese mothers-to-be. (Watch TIME's video "How to Lose Hundreds of Pounds...
Still, the rapid pace of the research means we may not have to wait long. "We really lucked out," says Lanza. "These iPS cells were just discovered a few years ago, and here we are three years later with a method safe enough to actually use in people." ACT plans to file a request for the first human trial using its cells sometime next year...