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Pretty heady stuff, especially for neurologists who have spent most of their professional lives believing that even if the adult brain had stem cells, they'd never yield new neurons. Now the scientists have at least two options to consider. They can train stem cells to produce nerve tissue in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brave New Cells | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Admission to the club can be dicey for the club’s small membership. “The first criterion is that the man be a jolly fellow,” says Greenway, “you don’t have to be a captain of industry.?...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

"Seeing is believing" is one of Charles' favorite sayings, no doubt repeated when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture recently paid Highgrove a visit. And it's a safe bet that the American visitor received an earful on Charles' other farming concern: genetically modified crops. Once again the Prince has shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Princely Pioneer | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Charles is throwing himself into another pioneering project: a radical way to meet Britain's need for new housing. Appalled by suburban developments made up of identical boxlike dwellings that eat into the countryside, the Prince is creating a model township called Poundbury on duchy land adjoining the town of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Princely Pioneer | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

When Ravelstein becomes ill and starts declining toward death, Chick realizes that the biographical task he had taken on as sport, never believing he would outlive his subject, has turned earnest indeed. Ravelstein is what he finally, after the passage of some duly noted years and difficulties, produces. This is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saul Bellow Blooms Again | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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