Word: dish
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...when those giggly freshmen call you asking for money for their endowment fund, think of the 40% of the Indian population that is illiterate or the 25% of sub-Saharan Africans who have HIV. That's where my money will go--right after I buy a satellite dish to watch the Stanford basketball team. They're so damn good...
...that both walked into the room with set lines to deliver. Bush congratulated McCain on his tough campaign, saying it had made him a better candidate, and McCain praised Bush for so artfully returning to his "compassionate conservative" theme since locking up the nomination. Then came the thoroughly precooked dish. Bush brought up the vice presidency, and McCain quickly asked that he not be considered. End of subject. "He had his scripted lines," says McCain, "and I had mine...
...TISSUE ENGINEERS With man-made skin already on the market and artificial cartilage not far behind, 25 years from now scientists expect to be pulling a pancreas out of a Petri dish. Or trying, anyway. Researchers have successfully grown new intestines and bladders inside animals' abdominal cavities, and work has begun on building liver, heart and kidney tissue...
...Rose up, in dialect 17. Word on either side of "-a-" 18. Set sail 20. OCS relative 22. Short poem, of sorts 25. Defendant in a controversial 1921 murder trial 28. Poet's conjunction 29. A target of the Asian long-horned beetle 32. Forbidden city, once 34. Starchy dish 35. Javits Center architect 36. Part of IV 38. It released 13 Lebanese held as bargaining chips 41. McCain has admitted he wasn't candid about this issue 44. __ Images Inc. posted images of a hush-hush Air Force proving ground on the Web 47. __ 51 (location photographed...
...especially for neurologists who have spent most of their professional lives believing that even if the adult brain had stem cells, they'd never yield new neurons. Now the scientists have at least two options to consider. They can train stem cells to produce nerve tissue in a petri dish and then implant the new tissue in an ailing brain. Or, as Fred Gage at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., suggests, they can tweak the brain's stem cells to start churning out new neurons. If you could do that, Gage says, "it would take away the controversy...