Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...released briefly in 1993, before his speeches and writings got him thrown into the slammer again. Only in recent years has he seemed less of a threat, obviously weakened and sometimes listless, wasting away in a cold cell...
...around 6 p.m. on Nov. 15, Wei was sitting in his cell at the Nanpu New Life Salt Works Prison north of Beijing, when a prison official came in and ordered him to pack up immediately. He was given a down jacket and a suitcase but had to leave behind most of his books and letters. Meanwhile, security officers picked up Wei's closest relatives--his father, stepmother, elder sister, younger brother and a niece--and drove them to a People's Liberation Army border guards' hostel that was a stone's throw from Beijing International Airport...
...bought big names. Alwaleed told TIME that he now owns about 5% of News Corp., the global media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, making him the second largest individual holder, behind Murdoch. Alwaleed also bought some 5% of Web-browser maker Netscape Communications, and a chunk of chip and cell-phone maker Motorola. The fourth finalist, another well-known American company, according to the prince, is still being bought...
...existing assisted-reproduction therapies were developed overseas. The world's first in-vitro baby, Louise Brown, was born in England. The first baby born from a frozen embryo is Australian. And it was in a Belgian lab that researchers found a way to inject sperm directly into an egg cell, enabling men with insufficient, slow-moving or feeble sperm to become fathers--a powerful new technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI...
...another fertility-boosting procedure sounds almost as if it came from science fiction. Researchers know that older women's eggs are less fertile than those of younger women, and suspect that the fault lies not in the chromosomes but in the biological machinery that controls cell division. To test this idea, Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of reproductive endocrinology at New York University Medical Center, and his colleague, Dr. John Zhang, have microsurgically transplanted the chromosome-containing nuclei from older women's eggs into younger women's eggs from which the nuclei have been removed. The transplants took, and while...