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...lighter Lou is ideal for this Cub team, which is heavy with veterans like Lee, closer Kerry Wood and utilityman Mark DeRosa. "Lou doesn't need to tell them how to do their business," says Cubs general manager Jim Hendry. Seasoned players tune out fire and brimstone. "He's the perfect manager for that ballclub right now," says Towers...
...would it be like totally ‘I Love Lucy’ of me to take a souvenir?’” While the common fan cherishes celebrity possessions such as worn-in jeans, Noyer has joined the ranks of those who have gotten even closer to their favorite stars, obtaining a different sort of gene. Not that Noyer is the first eager onlooker to snatch a piece of celebrity memorabilia—and in the process, score rare strands of DNA. In 2006, Jessica Simpson’s discarded gum was sold on eBay for over...
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to achieving the ultimate promise of stem cell research—creating tissues for every part of the body—without the use of harmful viruses or cancer-causing genes...
...around 11:30 on Monday morning, as the House drew closer to a vote, Blunt called House majority leader Steny Hoyer to express concern that they might not have the votes. "They thought that momentum would carry it and both sides would keep working; that was the way they left it," said one Democratic leadership aide familiar with the conversation. "No Republican ever asked to pull the bill...
Caught in between four countries and sixty years of conflict, the disputed territory of the Golan Heights seems closer than ever to a permanent resolution, after decades of tug-of-war between Israel and Syria over its rightful ownership. Israel's new Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni, has expressed a commitment to resolving the Golan issue once and for all, while outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert mentioned the impossibility of ever hoping for peace with the Syrians without giving up the Golan Heights in a recent interview...