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...fight. As Washington's squeeze on stem-cell research tightened in the early part of this decade, he decided to take action, providing life support for what remained of the U.S. stem-cell community. Not convinced that an entire field could make much progress relying on a few dozen cell lines of questionable quality, in 2004 he used funds HSCI receives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as from Harvard alumni, and developed a more streamlined method for generating stem-cell lines from embryos. He created more than 70 new ones...
...After teaming up with special-effects genius Ray Harryhausen in the 1950s, film producer Charles Schneer, 88, went on to create a dozen science-fiction and fantasy favorites such as Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad trilogy...
...could tarnish the school district's sterling reputation. Stuart Gibson, a Justice Department litigator serving his 14th year on the school board, voted for changing the grading system but will continue to oppose lowering the passing grade to 60. And he wants to maintain rigorous standards despite the three dozen e-mails he gets every day from Fairgrade supporters. He notes that in a neighboring district, 36% of students who graduated in June had a weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher. "I moved here from Minnesota, but I'd never been to Lake Wobegon," Gibson says, referring to the fictional...
...Once Madoff is imprisoned or dies, the circus of press coverage will die down. We will be left with only our memories of him and several dozen biographies that will come on and off the best seller list in a matter of months. (See a brief history of Ponzi schemes...
...such an easy hurdle to overcome. Because no one has used embryonic stem cells or the cells derived from them in people before, the FDA was particularly cautious. The trial that it approved is what's known as a Phase 1. It will involve no more than a dozen patients and is not designed to test the effectiveness of the cells. Rather, it will simply monitor the safety of inserting them into people. The researchers will be looking for whether the cells cause tumors, trigger an immune response or start to migrate away from the spinal-cord area. "There...