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...certainly expand the number of stem cell lines eligible for federal funding - under Bush's policy, only a couple dozen lines qualified, whereas the new guidelines would include up to 700 or so lines, according to the NIH - it would prevent scientists from studying the one thing that would bring this treatment from the lab bench to the patient bedside: patient-specific stem cells. Because stem cells from donated embryos would not be genetically matched to the patients who need them, in practice, treating a patient with a spinal cord injury or diabetes who could benefit from the cells would...
...Author,” McCall-Smith used examples from his work and life to illustrate the thorny relationship between an author and his readers. “[McCall-Smith] is a great writer who also has a background in law and medical ethics, and we wanted him to bring those disparate strands together in a philosophical reflection on his work,” Applbaum, the acting Director of the Kennedy School’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, said when asked why he had invited McCall-Smith to deliver the Safra Center’s last public...
...this Sunday as the winners of the Student Band Contest at the first-ever official Yardfest After Party. The contest is a new Yardfest addition, developed by the College Events Board and the Harvard Concert Commission, a student-run committee that organizes campus-wide events and seeks to bring professional entertainment to Harvard. Both groups hoped that adding a student band to Yardfest would help keep the excitement going after Yardfest, said HCC Director Julia Goldenheim ’10. Stealth Foxx was chosen from approximately 10 bands that submitted up to three songs for evaluation by members...
...heard of in the Gulf of Aden during his stint onboard last year. "The pirates come at you firing rocket launchers. You can outpace them if you're a fast, high-decked container. Otherwise you'll have to slow down or risk being blown up. Then they'll bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage through pirate-infested waters, he adds, "Every few minutes there's a false alarm, and the stress levels are stratospheric. The 37 hours it took to transit...
...flotilla of some 500 boats that had blocked the ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk since Tuesday weren't protesting the recession as such, but rather European Union fishing quotas that the fishermen claim further undermine already slumping business. Still, their move to bring trans-Channel traffic to a creep - and shut down ferry service altogether - paralleled similarly muscular action by workers across France who have taken the law into their own hands to protect their jobs. (See pictures of France on fire...