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...fleeting time, a day or two at most, all things are possible for an extraordinary group of cells that form part of a newly created embryo. Known as embryonic stem cells, they have the capacity to grow into any sort of tissue the body will need--nerves, blood, heart, bone and all the rest. And then they start to do just that, abandoning their unlimited promise in order to do something useful with their lives. Scientists have long believed, however, that embryonic stem cells could be terrifically useful in their unspecialized state as well, not only as a source...
...Wisconsin group, whose announcement appears in the current Science, went even farther. Its stem cells can evidently survive indefinitely. The researchers have also coaxed them to take the next step and differentiate into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. "It's an important first step," says developmental biologist James Thomson, who led the Wisconsin team. National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus pronounced the potential applications of the Wisconsin work "tremendous...
...taunted and harrassed by the cruel athletes, but this time Coach Klein suggests that he should fight back. And does he ever. The years of repressed anger rush to the surface, as Bobby visualizes all those people that have hurt him in the past. The result is a leaping, bone-crushing tackle of his tormentor that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag refrigerator man. Coach Klein, sensing the geyser of anger that he could harness, offers the waterboy a position on the team. Unfortunately, Bobby has to hide his moonlighting as a linebacker and college student from...
Feldenkreis' solution: in spite of his rosy sales projections, he is taking no chances. He is "restricting purchases," meaning he is cutting his inventory to the bone. "When you're in a situation like this, you buy only what the customer has ordered," he says. "You have less of your money tied up." He is also more cautious about his borrowings--one of the most important precautions any business can take. "People who are worried that we may have a recession need to reduce or eliminate their debts," says economist Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics. "In a recession your...
...world. Is there such a thing as contemporary modernism? How does one resolve the paradox of an institutionalized avant-garde? Couldn't somebody else's will have made them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss over Riley Weston, it did serve to remind me that I have yet to produce a masterwork of my own and that Van Gogh was 37 when he died...