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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...million gift to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will fund researchers developing cutting-edge stem cell therapies and surgical techniques to augment such therapies...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gift Funds Stem Cell Research | 3/16/2005 | See Source »

...telephone service. Softbank is not the only triple player in Japan. In late 2003, KDDI added television programming to its Internet access and telephone services, while J-Com, with nearly 2 million subscribers the country's largest cable-TV operator, last month began rolling out video-on-demand to augment the TV, phone and Net access it already provides via digital cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossed Wires | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...surgery to extend their careers. (You want to see performance enhancement in sports, look courtside at a Lakers game.) But plastic surgery has become positively democratic. Businessmen get nipped and tucked to win promotions; other people, just to look hot. And there are plenty of other ways that we augment nature, medically, technologically and financially. The elderly can extend their sex lives beyond what God and their grandchildren imagined. Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude. Short but healthy children are given human growth hormone for their self-esteem. Adults take Ritalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Your Nation on Steroids | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...program, Harvard librarians have begun to compile lists of books and reference materials that will augment the collections in the Iraqi libraries. After Iraqi librarians indicate which books from the list they want, HUL will help them obtain the necessary funding to purchase them, according to Jeffrey Horrell, associate librarian of Harvard College for collections...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard To Help Stock Iraqi Library Collections | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...surgery to extend their careers. (You want to see performance enhancement in sports, look courtside at a Lakers game.) But plastic surgery has become positively democratic. Businessmen get nipped and tucked to win promotions; other people, just to look hot. And there are plenty of other ways that we augment nature, medically, technologically and financially. The elderly can extend their sex lives beyond what God and their grandchildren imagined. Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude. Short but healthy children are given human growth hormone for their self-esteem. Adults take Ritalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Your Nation on Steroids | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

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