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Despite scattered progress in funding embryonic stem-cell research at the state level (notably in California, which passed a $3 billion stem-cell bond measure), political pressure at the national level kept such research on the back burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were...
Ferraris was brought aboard in the spring of 2003 to calm investors, who had been rattled when the outgoing CFO, Fausto Tonna, announced an unexpected new bond issue, sending Parmalat stock into a nose dive. The issue was quickly canceled. Within a few days of taking over, Ferraris made a presentation to financial analysts in Milan, stressing the company's rosy outlook: sales and earnings were up, debt was under control, and the company was awash in cash. "It was my job to patch up relations with the market," Ferraris told TIME in his lawyer's Milan office...
...Kyle and I would bond anyway!” says Lackner, with mock agitation. “Seriously, I always tell her how happy I am that there are at least two of us in the class...
...campus for a midnight cover shoot, he also has the intelligence, wit and attitude that FM loves. From his hilarious endpapers with a fiction writer’s flow to his near-perfect proofing track record (with a few, amusing-in-retrospect exceptions) and, above all, his desire to bond with us over Amstel Light or an episode of the Daily Show, Dave is our day-to-day, true-blue hero. He embodies the ethos of FM: be serious, but don’t take yourself too seriously, and we love him for it. His well-worn proofer?...
...that company’s machines. Such a price tag for “product positioning” seems small, however, compared with the $70.6 million ES&S made in sales to Florida following the endorsement. In March ES&S was forced to put up a $10 million bond as insurance against problems and lawsuits, after it was found that in four Indiana counties the company had used uncertified software to move votes from one computer to another—and then attempted to switch back to a certified version “under the guise of routine maintenance?...