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...techniques used by the U.S. and Taiwanese groups were similar. Both took stem cells from the limbus, the circular area of the eye that surrounds the cornea. These cells were grown on a sterilized membrane for several weeks until they formed a layer five to 10 cells thick. Doctors then cut pieces to the size they needed and sewed them into place...
...mood, consider that their neighbors to the south are a hyperthyroid, overprivileged, overbearing, overstimulated, venal crowd, self-important to the point of narcissism. Who can deny it? To the American's cartooning imagination, on the other hand, the Canadian seems - if you will forgive a circular argument - an awful lot like Al Gore...
...April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's head, removing the 2.7-lb. brain and dissecting it into 240 pieces before taking the 20th century's most important gray matter home in a glass jar filled with formaldehyde...
...much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers. The circular banquettes are surrounded by floor-to-ceiling sheets of plate glass, but each of them is uniquely curved and torqued so that together they form a voluptuous encirclement all around you. For some architects, it's enough to return you to your youth. Gehry brings you back to the womb...
...Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "the Butt"--live in "pods;" huge circular common rooms with singles branching off of them. Most of Hurlbut's oddly shaped rooms are comfortable and in good repair...