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...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...
...kind of scene you'd expect in a thriller by Michael Crichton or Robin Cook. A scientist throws some nondescript cells into a lab dish, leaves them alone for a bit and returns to find a disembodied heart thumping away...
...managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...
...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...
...Corona and sweat smacks you across the face, open beer bottles are shoved into your pasty palms. Price, one lowly dollar. Message: you are in Cancun. Forget Harvard and party. Spring-breakers eager to get a head-start on their one week stint into a college student's paradise dish out a few bucks for the cold brew as they board a charter bus from Cancun International Airport to their hotels. The bus driver, a rotund Mexican, safeguards the remaining beer in a red picnic cooler. He's saving it especially for the World Class representatives, employees of a travel...