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...Despite the claim by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) that more than 10,000 new patients each year could benefit from cord-blood stem-cell transplants, most umbilical cords currently end up as medical waste. Today, a matching donor from the national registry is found only about 25% of the time, and many patients die waiting. So far, doctors have found the most promise in cord blood for conditions such as blood cancers, leukemia and sickle-cell anemia. But last year, an ongoing study at the University of Florida showed cord-blood cells could also be effective at treating...
...posts are often accompanied by grainy, practically inscrutable cell phone photographs, and most contain information that is provably false, and often wholly ridiculous—for example, a recent post claimed VES and Physics concentrator Lewis Z. Liu ’08 would be trading one of his paintings with British billionaire Richard Branson for a ride on Virgin Galactic’s first spaceflight...
...former head of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence’s (ISI) political cell recently confessed that he was responsible for political manipulation in Pakistan’s 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s supposedly unfaltering ally in the War on Terror, General (ret.) Pervez Musharraf and his desire to paint an image of Pakistan as an extremely dangerous, unstable country ready to fall into the hands of extremists the moment he leaves. Musharraf pretends...
...telling a story,” he says. “It’s about what’s going on around the people, the community.”Abereoje’s favorite Nollywood actress, Omotola Ekeinde—whose breakout role as a pregnant sickle-cell patient in 1995’s “Mortal Inheritance” spurred a string of subsequent hits and even a pop album—exemplifies some of the new opportunities for women that have sprouted along with Nollywood.Tackling distinctly African themes like the proliferation of AIDS and religious tension...
McCain plans to bring new cards to the table--his unconventional campaign style combined with a set of issues that appeal to the political center. He wants to regulate greenhouse gases. He opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic, voted to fund stem-cell research and has a history of fighting against the corrosive influence of money in politics. He initially voted against the Bush tax cuts, which he now supports, saying at the time that they "mostly benefit the wealthy." To this day, he does not favor an absolute repeal of the estate tax. Despite a full-blown rebellion...