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Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel laureate who spent decades as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and whose tissue-culture research paved the way to the development of vaccines for polio and other viral diseases such as chicken pox and measles, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass...
Weller, who retired from his Harvard teaching responsibilities in 1980, went on to isolate and grow varicella-zoster viruses for chicken pox and shingles and cytomegalovirus, a member of the herpesvirus family that can cause birth defects. With the urine sample of his 10-year-old son Robert A. Weller, who developed a severe case of the measles, Weller and his Harvard colleague, Franklin A. Neva, identified the virus for rubella, or German measles...
...doing so well, he did give us advice. It's almost like the two of us have formed our own little casino association. When we have meals together, he looks at me as his son rather than a competitor - even though we go after the same piece of chicken sometimes," Ho says...
...clear whether there will be enough chicken to go around. The red-hot growth rate of Macau's gambling market is set to ease in the second half of 2008 due to local government efforts to cool Macau's overheating economy. The slowdown could come as several major new projects are launching. Early next year, Melco Crown will open the City of Dreams, a $2.3 billion megaresort that boasts several hotels (including a Grand Hyatt and a Hard Rock Hotel), a 2,000-seat theater, a shopping mall and a 550-table casino...
...powers and a low immunity system. Sosuke has cut his finger breaking the jar; she heals it with her touch, and in briefly tasting his blood, she starts to become human. She sprouts rudimentary hands and feet; for an instant she looks like a child's drawing of a chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who works...