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...very personal experience that brought Melton to stem cells, one that 17 years later he still finds difficult to discuss. When his son Sam was 6 months old, he became ill with what his parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton...
...Stopping at a home on her street, she rings a neighbor's doorbell. "Open up. I'm your health volunteer," she says, and instantly, the door is buzzed open. Inside, she tells 26-year-old Azizeh Mohammadi that she should come to the health center the next day to discuss family-planning with the resident doctor. Mohammadi agrees to go. Male contraception is equally promoted and sought...
...Uniform Law Commission held a meeting in 2008 with officials from various universities to discuss the legislation, according to Kerr. Kerr said officials from several area schools including Emerson, Tufts, Boston College, and Harvard expressed interest in receiving materials and additional information, but he was unsure if they attended the conference in person. In interviews with The Crimson, Harvard officials have not acknowledged any familiarity with the legislation...
...World Economic Forum got its start in January 1971 when University of Geneva Professor Klaus Schwab chaired a centralized meeting of the key players in European business to discuss ways that their firms could catch up with successful American management practices. The success of the meeting led Schwab to create the European Management Forum as a non-profit that would facilitate such conferences on an annual basis. The choice to host the meetings in Davos, Switzerland - a town famous as a 19th century destination for Europeans seeking treatment for lung disease - was based on its isolated location and the privacy...
...People are scared," Pawlowski says. "They are almost desperate." Angry residents showed up at city hall on Sunday at a long-scheduled meeting to discuss re-establishing a Town Watch program and demanded answers from city officials. According to local newspapers, at least 100 people packed the meeting, causing the police chief, city manager and city-council members to hurry over to deal with the crowd. Police chief William Matthews tried to reassure the residents. "We cannot have people roaming the streets with guns," he said, according to the Daily Times newspaper...