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...outside Chicago, where he developed an abiding interest in wildlife and the environment. (He was later Chairman of the Board of the Nature Conservancy.) He went to college at Dartmouth, where earned the nickname "The Hammer" as a member of the school's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1968, he earned an MBA at Harvard before embarking on stints in the Department of Defense and as a White House aide under Richard Nixon...
...Using this technique, Melton and his colleagues were able to turn ordinary mouse exocrine cells of the pancreas into beta cells, vital insulin-producing cells that die off in Type I diabetes patients...
...California The Browser Wars, Part II Search giant Google unveiled Chrome, a new Web browser designed to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Still in the beta-test stage, Chrome sports some spiffy new features--bundled tabs, an address bar merged with a search box--but faces a tough fight from Explorer, which claims roughly 75% of the browser market...
...software, which is in beta, will be distributed for free to PC users in more than 100 countries via Google's blog. (Mac and Linux versions are in the works.) Word of the impending launch accidentally leaked on Monday, when Google mistakenly sent a comic-book-style announcement detailing Chrome to a blog...
...That feature, by the way, is also included in Microsoft's newest version of its popular browser, IE 8, which went into its second beta release last week...