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Live a Little. Off the mainland, at the San Juan Marriott Resort, you get a suite, with chauffered airport pickup and a dozen roses waiting in your hotel along with champagne and strawberries, all as part of their "Romantic Rendezvous" package. To properly appreciate the champagne, you can take tasting lessons with a sommelier, then enjoy a candlelit 3-course dinner. The next day, relax with breakfast served on your balcony, and take a packed picnic to the beach. Clean off the salt and sand with a romantic bath prepared in your suite. $536 per night, available through...
...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...
...with an Idol auditioner, it is impossible to know. But the man who did more than a dozen TV interviews--saying he was doing it for his kids, for our kids, for the needy, for justice--seemed to mean it. On Good Morning America, he admitted having considered Oprah Winfrey for the Illinois Senate seat. On Today, he likened himself to a Frank Capra hero and said his arrest was like those of Mandela, M.L.K. and Gandhi. On The View, he said the Mandela-M.L.K.-Gandhi comparison had been taken "out of context," as had his recorded...
...unclear where the 16,000 sets of armor are currently located or being used. Body armor is now standard issue for all military personnel in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2001, the U.S. military has sourced body armor from nearly a dozen manufacturers. Almost from the start of the war in Iraq in 2003, the military has been criticized for failing to supply armor in sufficient numbers; more recently, the criticism has centered on the quality of the armor...