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Dogs provide a good model system, not only because they have bigger brains than mice, but also because they would allow researchers to test the toxicity of the cancer-killing protein and the efficacy of the therapy, Breakefield said...
...bigger question is whether the risk-taking, hard-charging, high-living times will give way to a quieter, duller, less profitable and far more regulated era - not so much a golden age as a golden cage. The debt-fueled days are almost certainly history, and households across the capital will have to tighten their belts and live with a lot less leverage; the banking crisis has already made it considerably harder for house buyers to get mortgages of any sort, let alone ones requiring only a tiny down payment. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points...
...agents weren't likely to blow themselves up to make a political point, and the middle-class whites in the CIA couldn't easily pass for Arabs to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional CIA spy who the terrorists will believe has penetrated their ring. (British intelligence hatched this idea in 1943 for an anti-Germany caper that was memorialized in the book and movie...
...larger meaning and implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past for those artifacts is if they can suggest something bigger than the sum of their parts, and that involves higher emotions.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...conservative columnist William Kristol is to be believed, Sarah Palin is surprised that her own campaign hasn't made a bigger deal out of the controversial remarks of Barack Obama's former pastor. The relationship between Obama and Jeremiah Wright is, according to Palin, fair game in the presidential campaign because it speaks to the question of the Democratic candidate's character. "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more," Kristol, writing in the New York Times, quoted Palin as telling...