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...after consistently opposing the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, Brown says the Greens' opposition to the Iraq war has won them many more converts among older voters. As the Liffey river dances and gurgles at the bottom of the slope, Brown says he's confident this will be a breakthrough election for the Greens, who one day want to be a serious contender for government. And how will the party safeguard its ideals along the way? "If further down the line the Greens got seduced by power or money, as the older parties have," he says, "others will come along...
...from her mother, frozen and transplanted back. The tissue was taken out when her mom was 25 and facing chemotherapy for cancer. Six years later, cancer free but infertile from the drugs, she had the tissue stitched back in--and got pregnant by natural means four months later. The breakthrough raises hope for the thousands of women who face sterilization each year from cancer treatments. If the procedure proves safe enough--a big if--it might also offer an option to healthy women who want to extend their fertile years a little longer...
...narrower, more efficient beam enables far more information to be packed onto discs. Blue-laser DVDs promise sharper picture quality suitable for display on advanced flat-screen high-definition TVs and computer monitors. Previously, they were too expensive and unreliable to go in mass-market electronics, but a recent breakthrough in the materials that make up blue-laser diodes (the light-emitting component) has made them commercially viable...
...institute in Dresden--and others like it dotted around Germany--is starting to do things differently. Traditionally, German research universities are rigidly hierarchical. The head of the laboratory gets all the resources and, if there's a breakthrough, all the credit. The Dresden Max Planck Institute takes a more laissez-faire--in fact, a more American--approach. Its faculties are modeled after U.S. universities in which postdoctorate researchers have better access to funding, doing away with the top-down approach. The Dresden institute is also aggressively trying to attract researchers from outside Germany. "We are adapting the U.S. system...
...leaving the front door open when she left the house, "vagueing out" during conversation, struggling with basic instructions. In January last year, at the age of 54, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which doctors predict will end her life within six years unless there's a breakthrough in treatment...