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HEARTWARMING A team of scientists armed with a high-powered microscope and new investigative techniques has challenged decades of medical dogma by reporting that the heart can, in fact, regenerate new muscle cells after a heart attack. Too few cells are created to repair all the damage, however, and any new therapies tapping into this regenerative ability are many years away...
...these guys has made after their phenomenal breakthrough just a few years ago. Matt signed on for "Rounders," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Saving Private Ryan." Ben, on the other hand, was tapped for such gems as "Phantoms," "Boiler Room" and "Forces of Nature." They both appeared in "Dogma," which I firmly believe is one of the worst movies ever made. So they both lose points on that one. To be absolutely fair, Ben did show up in "Shakespeare in Love," but his performance was eerily similar to Keanu Reeves?s in "Much Ado About Nothing," so it?s probably...
...story of Europe was basically one of watching the covered wagons roll west, full of pottery, wheat and barley, pushing aside the hunter-gatherers," says Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. Further back, archaeology was harnessed to political ends, subsumed in Nazi Germany to the dogma of Aryan man, and in most other places in Europe to a kind of manifest destiny...
...previous position, outlined in a campaign statement, argued that carbon dioxide ought to be regulated like nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury--other major pollutants. While far from a progressive stance, Bush at least appeared to break with the long-outdated Republican dogma that global warming is not a danger. It was refreshing to see a major GOP candidate embrace the conclusion reached by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which recently declared that human-generated carbon dioxide has unequivocally contributed to global warming...
...owned by billionaires Albert Fr?re and Paul Desmarais. Instead of cash, GBL agreed to take 25.1% of Bertelsmann shares. More importantly, the deal allows GBL to sell its shares on the stock market in three years, the first time Bertelsmann stock will be available to the public. "The dogma is broken," said Bertelsmann ceo Thomas Middelhoff, who engineered the RTL purchase...