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...most people, the idea of researchers dipping freely into an eternally regenerating, federally bankrolled pool of 60 stem-cell lines sounds pretty good, and that's just the way the President wanted it. "Research on these 60 lines could...lead to breakthrough therapies," Bush said. Maybe--provided scientists can get hold of them...
...than try to sift marbles through a screen too fine to let them through, Langer in effect wrapped the screen around the marbles, creating a three-dimensional matrix honeycombed with marble-size chutes and ladders that would allow his molecules to slowly work their way out. It was a breakthrough that ushered in a new generation of drug-delivery systems...
...made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal was our big breakthrough...
...close of the Kyoto Global-Warming Treaty discussions held in Bonn last week, exhausted negotiators from nearly every country on earth had reason to be proud. They had done what no one expected--they reached a breakthrough agreement to limit greenhouse gases. During the concluding remarks, as each speaker praised the next, only the chief U.S. official on the scene drew an undiplomatic response. When Paula Dobriansky told the gathering that the Bush Administration "will not abdicate our responsibility" to address global warming, the hall filled with boos. That's because the U.S., the world's largest producer of greenhouse...
...Still, the Bonn agreement has been celebrated as a historic breakthrough both by the governments of Western Europe and environmentalist activist groups such as Greenpeace, which believes even the watered-down Kyoto creates the foundations of a vigorous international system to regulate human behaviors harmful to the planet. And even though the world's largest polluter has stayed out, the treaty's signatories collectively produce more than twice as much greenhouse...