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...Born in Nashville, Ill., Blackmun grew up in St. Paul and Minneapolis. After earning a degree in mathematics from Harvard, he attended Harvard Law School, practicing law privately until 1959, when President Eisenhower appointed him to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and his three daughters...
...special challenge: they must be strong yet flexible enough to expand and contract with each heartbeat. Joseph Vacanti's group has grown a tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then he removes the tube and seeds...
...Boston Conservatory presents Bill Russell and Henry Krieger's Tony-nominated Side Show, a real-life tale of Siamese-twin sisters who escaped the sideshow circuit to find romance, happiness and fame in vaudeville. Emerson Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont...
...this little room, a man in a bright yellow Harvard sweatshirt sits and watches the closed-circuit monitor in front of him, which shows a teenage girl carefully peeling the security tags off two compact discs and slipping them into her friend's backpack...
...Senate performed admirably. Senators resisted calls to short-circuit the trial required by the Constitution, while preventing the proceedings from dragging on longer than necessary. Though Republican senators did ram through several procedural votes along party lines, the trial as a whole bore little resemblance to the partisan fray in the House...