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...wasn't easy. After nearly 600 attempts, only two baby mice (known as pups) survived. One was sacrificed for genetic analysis. The other, dubbed Kaguya, grew up, mated the usual way and produced two litters. Despite the fact that Kaguya bore offspring, "we really don't know how healthy she is," says Marisa Bartolomei, an imprinting expert and Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support of the ruling power. The transformation of Papa Doc’s regime into Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s into military rule into Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s hopeful but corrupt and fragmented government is portrayed...
...Saturday, Gibson not only braved the equivalent of a stress fracture on her foot, but bore the stress of the possible upset over the Yale track and field team...
...about things people don’t already know something about. Once I no longer fit into the framework of “Indian,” my nationality isn’t interesting anymore. (It’s always possible that I’m just a crashing bore when I talk about my country, but I know many other internationals who aren’t.) Admittedly, mine is a broad characterization. My roommates and friends are acutely conscious of my different world view, and treat it as a part of me. But this observation does seem to apply...
...Cornell had rallied from the same two-goal deficit on April 10 in their 9-8 overtime defeat of the Crimson, but this time Harvard bore down and refused to let its third chance to knock off a ranked favorite slip away...