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...revenge is a dish best wolfed down right now, because this time it's personal. And for Shelton, the body count of retribution is "gonna be biblical" - as in the Egyptian children killed by God's decree. By midspree, and from the seemingly airtight confinement of his prison cell, Shelton has effected the violent dispatch of most of the people who had even a peripheral role in his killers' judicial fate. And since Rice has a loving wife and a child about the same age as Shelton's when she died, the viewer fully expects them to be Shelton...
...plot has holes deeper than the ones ... no, we can't say, since that would tip the movie's one surprise. We'll just say that while Shelton is terrorizing Philadelphia by masterminding his crimes from his solitary cell, the prison officials might have thought to post a 24-hour guard nearby. Still, caulking those holes wouldn't help its stars bring emotional plausibility to their roles. Foxx seems both fretful and distracted; he can be a vital screen presence, but his characters need to act, not just react and endure. Butler has the showier part, but his impersonation...
...many interrogation scenes of “Law Abiding Citizen,” Jamie Foxx peers into Gerard Butler’s jail cell and asks him how his family would feel about the crimes he has committed. “My wife and daughter can’t feel anything,” Butler replies without missing a beat. “They’re dead.” Believe it or not, this is the film at its most profound. “Law Abiding Citizen” aspires to be a smart thriller akin to director...
...Medical School Professor Kenneth R. Chien ’73, the project—published in today’s issue of Science—was a collaborative effort of scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...team used a mouse cardiac stem cell to develop a functioning, intact strip of mouse heart muscle, raising the possibility that such cardiac stem cells can have regenerative capacity if manipulated appropriately...