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THUMBS UP Wouldn't it be great if you could grow your own body parts? Well, an experiment begun three years ago to do just that has proved a resounding success. After a Massachusetts machinist lost part of his thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his forearm, placed on a thumb-shaped scaffolding made of coral and implanted on the digit. Now the coral is dissolving, new bone tissue is growing and the patient is able to write, grasp and otherwise carry on with normal activities...
...plurality. Great leaders like Roosevelt, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek had that ability to reach through whatever medium they were using and connect with their people. For Chen, successful at everything he has done, finding a way to make that connection is proving his greatest challenge. You can't bone up on empathy or cram your way into the hearts and minds of your voters...
...BONE BUILDERS The list of treatments for osteoporosis--calcium, hormone- replacement therapy, drugs like Fosamax and Evista--may have just got longer. Researchers find that among postmenopausal women with fractures, daily doses of a drug called parathyroid hormone dramatically stimulate bone formation. After 21 months of treatment, women saw their vertebral-bone mass increase up to 13% and the incidence of serious fractures drop a dramatic 85%. Any downside? The yet-to-be-approved drug must be injected and works for only about two years--after which patients may want to switch to another therapy...
...that Yalies know that Skull and Bones requires initiates to retrieve a femur bone and lie in a coffin and that their other option is to watch movies with porn stars, I'm guessing there's going to be a different tone to leadership this century...
That doesn't make Airbus the market leader, but the company has lately mastered the knack of acting like a winner. An Airbus marketer derides the 747 as a "bone shaker." And Leahy has no qualms about going for the jugular. "The A380 will be a new flying experience," he says. "That's what the 747 provided in 1970." He maintains that airlines will probably install casinos, gyms or duty-free shopping in the A380's abundant cargo hold. Joseph San Pietro, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, dismisses such a notion as a flight of fancy...