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...thought were instrumental in cell programming, and was ready to begin testing them. There was no guarantee any of the 24 suspects were the right ones, and when Yamanaka offered the experiment to one of his students, the researcher turned him down. "We knew the chance that the correct answer was in those 24 factors was very small," says Yamanaka during an interview in his cramped office on the second floor of Kyoto University Hospital. "It was a risky project, and you had to be very brave...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...
...12th-graders are "proficient" in reading, which means an eighth-grade level of competence, down from 40% in 1992. More than a quarter (27%) of high school seniors are functionally illiterate. The results are even worse in math. Simply throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer. On K-12 we are spending more than double the amount we spent 30 years ago, and the test results are about the same...
...government official," the President said in a statement. But human rights groups say the new sense of fear instilled in Tamil civilians won't disappear anytime soon. "When they [Tamil civilians] ask us whether we could guarantee that this would not happen again, we can not give an answer, there is a lot of fear among those who got caught in the drive, it will take some time for them feel safe here in Colombo," says Rukshan Fernando of the Colombo-based Law and Society Trust, which is helping some of the Tamils who returned to the capital after...
...Committee’s answer to the apparent substance-based moral depravity and ignorance of the student body was a policy that holds the leaders of student groups personally responsible in front of the Administrative Board of the College if harm befalls a severely-intoxicated student at an event held by that group. The policy also superfluously codifies a preexisting “amnesty policy” that grants protection to intoxicated students and the faithful friend or friends who get them medical help...