Word: duke
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...pray what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity? Ken Martin, 69, is fairly sure it's his dancing. The Mackay Choral Society is rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers, and "I can't dance," admits the retired transport-firm manager and future Duke of Plaza-Toro. The whole choir is laughing, "but it's me who's getting it right," he says. "The rest of them are wrong...
...sophomore year at Duke University in the 1970s, Church—who is currently a professor of genomics at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—designed a program that folded up one-dimensional DNA structures into cloverleaf-like structures...
...want to lean out over the edges of science and marvel at what is now possible, visit Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg's program at Duke University Medical Center. Children with blood diseases that were almost certainly fatal a decade ago have got cord-blood transplants that essentially cure them. Now she and her team are taking a more targeted approach by attempting to differentiate cord-blood cells to address heart, brain and liver defects. "I think cord-blood cells have a lot of promise for tissue repair and regeneration," says Kurtzberg. "But I think it will take 10 to 20 years...
...Desperate's, but from the bad guy's point of view. Gangsters pull off a heist, it goes wrong, and they blame it on the innocent guy whose truck they used. But the movie quickly shifts its focus from the decent victim, Steve (bland Ed Kelly), to the psycho, Duke Martin (strutting John Ireland), who has a dandy's affectations - he uses perfumed bullets - and promiscuous trigger finger. In the film's 72 mins. he kills four people, most of them witnesses to the crime Steve has been framed...
...unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election to fill the California House seat vacated by Duke Cunningham, the Republican jailed for taking bribes. But the Republican candidate won by 5 percentage points...