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...year later, Yamanaka followed up his work by reporting success with the same four factors in turning back the clock on human skin cells. At about the same time, in Wisconsin, Thomson achieved the same feat using a different cocktail of genes. With those studies, what became known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) were suddenly a reality. Never mind the frustratingly fickle process needed to create embryonic stem cells; this was something any molecular-biology graduate student could do. "We figured somebody would have success with reprogramming. We just thought that somebody would come along a generation from...
...Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, turns back the clock on mouse skin cells to create the first induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, or stem cells made without the use of embryos. He uses only four genes, which are inserted into a skin cell's genome using retrovirus vectors...
...meetings on a dizzying array of topics, he returns home to read reports from Congress or the Group of Thirty, an international body of economists, and call a network of peers who advise him. "I have aged, so I don't think I have called anyone after 11 o'clock since this job," he jokes about his reputation for having late-night debates with friends. "I'm not sure that's a record I will be able to continue...
Maliki, 58, hardly looks the part. With his permanent five-o'clock shadow and slack posture, he seems no more tyrannical than a demotivated schoolteacher, an impression underscored by his toneless speaking style. But there's no denying that his stature has increased. "I didn't know he had it in him," says Ridha Jawad Taki, a Shi'ite parliamentarian who has known Maliki since the 1980s, when both lived in Syria. "He has become self-assured, and very decisive." Those qualities were burnished in November, when Maliki overcame considerable opposition within Iraq's parliament to sign an agreement with...
...rather, turn back the clock to a more innocent age. Over the past several decades, playgrounds "have increasingly become less fun as we worry more and more about liability," says Adrian Benepe, New York City's Parks and Recreation commissioner. "So much so that we've effectively dumbed them down in the name of safety." In doing so, Hammond adds, "we've created a generation that would rather play video games or watch TV than run around outside." (See 10 things to do in New York City...