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...news story and an editorial--"To Lynch a Negro Tonight"--that egged on the men who set off that year's Tulsa riot, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history. When students of the event went looking for those pages, what they found was a blank space...
...It’s not as simple as you’d think. But the more telephone calls we make and the more people we talk with and the more people who come up with a blank stare,” she said, “the less likely that information is accurate. So far we haven’t been able to find someone who can say he was a professor...
...It’s not as simple as you’d think. But the more telephone calls we make and the more people we talk with and the more people who come up with a blank stare,” she said, “the less likely that information is accurate. So far we haven’t been able to find someone who can say he was a professor...
Half a century ago, that message didn't get through. Chess and Thomas were dismissed as "determinists"--a damning label during an era in which babies were seen as blank slates upon which parents could scribble any personality at all. But practitioners see new wisdom in the old findings...
Taken from embryos only days old, stem cells are nature's blank slates, capable of developing into any one of the more than 200 cell types found in the human body. Scientists hope these cells may someday be used to treat a range of degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes. But using human embryos for research poses ethical problems, and until last year federal funding for such work was blocked. After much soul searching, President Bush decided last summer to allow federal grants for research that used only the 60 or so stem-cell lines that have...