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...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) is one organization that will not need the new funds. PBHA received an unexpected windfall from the will of Margaret Rey, co-creator of the children's book character Curious George. The $1.3 million gift nullified the need for PBHA's major capital campaign to begin in the fall...
...power of faith long before it was cool, at least among Democrats. In his 1992 best-selling environmental book, Gore wrote of "a spiritual crisis in modern civilization that seems to be based on an emptiness at its center" and declared his own "unshakable belief in God as creator and sustainer." But as Gore is learning, it can be tricky--particularly for a Democrat--to bare his soul as part of a campaign roll-out. Which may be why he felt it necessary to summon religion writers to the White House last week and declare, a bit defensively...
While the age of the donor is probably partly responsible, the research team--which included Ian Wilmut, Dolly's creator--may have discovered another factor. The more time a clone embryo spent in a test tube before transfer to a womb, the shorter the clone's telomeres. "In culture, cells go through 20 divisions," says research director Alan Colman. "That's a significant percentage of the 150 they go through in a lifetime...
...very hard. It's a lot of chatting and eating and television watching and, most of all, talking about writing. On the other hand, corporate lawyers, despite all their negative traits, are pretty efficient. That's the only plausible explanation for how David Kelley--a former lawyer and the creator of Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, this fall's Snoops, an additional new half-hour version of Ally and two upcoming feature films, Lake Placid and Mystery, Alaska--is able to write the great majority of the scripts for his projects. Joyce Carol Oates, I still can't figure...
...loudly. In an increasingly Balkanized medical community, fractured by all manner of alternative therapies, Null, a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public-health science, is leading one of the biggest breakaway republics of all. Author of more than 50 books, host of a daily radio show and creator of two popular self-help videos, Null is preaching his good-health gospel to a growing band of believers following his path to long life and wellness...