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...North Texas Health Care System. "But it is even safer." Between 2000 and 2003, the number of teenagers who had bariatric surgery tripled. While the number is growing, with 771 adolescents signing up in 2003, teenagers still represent less than 1% of all bariatric surgeries - a number that will begin to increase as more doctors view the practice as safe...
...come so soon. Trying to discover the right combination of genes that would reprogram adult cells was a scientific fishing expedition in a deep ocean. In early 2004 Yamanaka had worked up a list of 24 possible genes he 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...
...distance away from the fury of Gaza at his fortress home in the West Bank city of Ramallah, has accused Hamas - his partner in a short-lived unity government - of trying to stage a coup. Abbas aides warned that unless Hamas calls off its fighters in Gaza, Fatah will begin targeting Hamas members in the West Bank, where Fatah may be marginally stronger than the Islamists...
This showed in the form of seven straight losses to begin the year and a 4-15 mark at season?...
...changes I found are, for the most part, good, but some were initially disconcerting. Let me begin with the obvious: My house is gone. When I first returned to Harvard, I would tell undergraduates that I had lived in “South House.” I was most often met with a polite but pitying nod suggesting they thought I had an active fantasy life. Some junior historian types were aware that the Quad used to be different, but few had more than a misty notion that it used to have something to do with girls. I soon...