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...ethical considerations aside, researchers have so far offered promises aplenty about what stem cells can do but very little proof. Scientists acknowledge that many "nontrivial" technical obstacles remain to be overcome, and they are worried that stem-cell therapy has been so overhyped that it can't help but disappoint. There has even been one death from a related treatment...
Margaret told me that she considered her opinions of her grandson's lifestyle almost irrelevant. It wouldn't be the choice she would make, she said, and it did disappoint her somewhat, but that was water under the bridge at this point, after the surprise. Now what she worried about was the little boy, and how he would grow up. After all, she said, doesn't every child need a mother...
...election as President of Russia [WORLD, April 3]. He is an extraordinary man. I was assigned to his international-relations committee and found him to be charming (yes), drolly humorous, enormously capable and totally appreciative of Western democratic values. I predict that he will sometimes exasperate and disappoint us, often disagree with us, but more often please us with his bold and clever actions to strengthen Russia and finally bring a just and compassionate balance between law and order there. Watch him carefully, and continue not to overreact. He never does. RICHARD TORRENCE New York City...
Shevchik did not disappoint...
Levin had previously said he would consider wearing pajamas to lecture, and he didn't disappoint, sporting matching plaid blue P.J.'s and gray bunny slippers...