Word: coax
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...ghostly animations are intercut with interviews and newsreel footage, suggesting the simultaneous erasure and cataloging of occult information. As the filmmakers delve deeper into their murky subject matter, the music grows more ominous and the sound stages on which the interviews are filmed darken with layered shadows.Galison and Moss coax surprisingly frank admissions from a dozen people whose lives have been steeped in secrets. These confessions are given in an almost uniformly even-handed, rational tone that betrays their gravity. As Melissa Boyle Mahle, former CIA Chief of Base in Jerusalem, says to us, “A democracy...
...their fat wallets with them. "We find these changes quite bizarre," says Andrew Tailby-Faulkes, a tax partner at Ernst & Young in London. "If we do have an exodus of wealthy people, that's got to be bad news for Britain." But for the tax havens that manage to coax them to their shores, the news couldn't be better...
With dozens of labs around the world working on the problem, the creation of stem-cell lines from embryos like these will happen sooner or later. But even when they do, scientists will have to learn how to coax them into producing useful tissues. They'll also have to make certain that both the cloning and the coaxing don't damage the cells in a way that make them not just ineffective but lethal. That's the danger with a different form of stem-cell production, announced this past November, in which skin cells are simply genetically reprogrammed to revert...
...Cinema-X With five 110-watt or two 450-watt audio channels, Pathos Acoustics' Cinema-X ($9,500) can coax a superior blast from your stereo. Hooked to your home cinema, it will transport you to distant locales - if you can take your eyes off the six tubes' hypnotic glow. www.ukd.co.uk
...thought it was possible to turn back time, especially where biology was concerned. Once a cell started on its march of development, nothing, absolutely nothing, scientists thought, could turn it around again. Dolly, the cloned sheep, proved this biological maxim wrong in 1996, when Ian Wilmut was able to coax an aging mammary cell to become an entirely new sheep by giving it a home in a hollowed-out egg. And since every scientific experiment just begets more experiments, Dolly's birth got researchers to wondering: If the egg can reprogram a cell, is it possible to tease out exactly...