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...documentary efficiently, handsomely lays out the Kelly story. In brief: Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh on August 23, 1912. He was already a teenager when his brother Fred, four years younger, taught him to tap dance. The family opening two dancing schools, tutoring the locals and occasionally serving as a "dance doctor" to vaudevillians passing through town. Even when he was green, even with his loving folks, Gene could drive a hard bargain. Since he was the driving force of the family enterprise, he fought for his name above the title - Gene Kelly Studios of Dance...
Since President George W. Bush restricted embryonic stem cell research last August, approximately 30 couples treated by local fertility clinic Boston IVF chose to donate their leftover embryos to Melton’s lab. Many did so in the hopes of harnessing the enormous potential of the embryonic stem cells—widely recognized for their ability to develop into any other type of cell—to find a treatment for type 1 diabetes, according to Powers...
...Louima's story horrified the nation and rocked many New Yorkers' faith in their police force: In August 1997, Louima spent a brutal summer night in the bathroom of a Brooklyn police station, being sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger...
...Administration. Because of Abdullah's belief that Bush was ignoring the Palestinian issue, about which he feels passionate as an ardent Arab nationalist, he had turned down invitations to visit Washington, including one handwritten by Bush himself. Then, while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat and none on Israel. He instructed Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar to deliver a stark message: relations were at a crossroads, and Saudi Arabia would now look...
Russia What Sank the Sub Investigators said that an obsolete torpedo had probably caused the explosion that sank the submarine Kursk in August 2000. Russia's prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov said there was no evidence of foreign craft in the vicinity of the submarine. It was the first public acknowledgment that the sinking had not been caused by a collision with another vessel, but investigators said they would release their final conclusions only...