Word: dogma
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Encouraged by the triumph of dogma over economic reason on the health care front, the Republicans are taking the battle to taxation. These days, anything goes when you’re cutting taxes, but tax increases are virtually taboo. Even reversing recent cuts is portrayed as supporting high taxes. As Bush told Congress in his State of the Union speech, “The tax reductions you passed are set to expire...Unless you act, Americans face a tax increase.” In the face of the $4 trillion of deficits the Congressional Budget Office projects for the decade...
...energize my old dream of becoming an actor. I'm trying to have people who make movies see me as more than a cartoonish, one-dimensional comedian who shows up for a cameo. [Writer-director] Kevin Smith saw me as something a little different in [his film] Dogma, and now he's rewarded me with this part that he wrote...
...American leading men in their 30s. Affleck's pal Matt Damon has had hits and flops, though fewer of each than Ben. Same with Edward Norton. They all bound from action picture to indie, as Affleck has--from Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) to Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl), from starring in potential franchise pictures (The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil) to doing cameos in films by friends...
...biology was the last thing on Tilly's mind when he and his colleagues began their research. They were interested in prolonging fertility, but as experts in cell death, or apoptosis, they were looking for ways to keep the limited supply of eggs limping along longer. "We assumed the dogma was correct," he says. Indeed, they found that the egg cells in adult-mouse ovaries are constantly dying off--but at a remarkable rate of up to 1,200 a day, or about a third of the total. "By the existing dogma," says Tilly, "they shouldn't last more than...
Professor and Director of Reproductive Biology at the Yale Laboratory of Reproductive Biology Harold R. Behrman called Tilly’s work a “very significant” find that prompts a new look at the assumptions about human egg generation. “The dogma has been that mammalian eggs don’t regenerate after birth,” Behrman said...