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...York Blood Center, which issued a plea for emergency blood donations on Tuesday, said the response has been “tremendous.” A spokesperson actually asked that Boston donors be patient and not give blood until next week at the earliest...
...Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson's claim that they are robust and viable for research. Goteborg University, for instance, was credited with the world's largest cache--19 lines--even though its researchers had told Thompson the week before that only three had progressed beyond the earliest, most tentative stages. Goteborg fertility expert Lars Hamberger told the Washington Post that he and his colleagues thought the White House either had made a "mistake" or had decided to "stretch things" to suit its need for a larger number. And while the tiny San Diego biotech firm CyThera...
Glanzman's assertion would once have been considered ludicrous. That's because experts believed the earliest signs of civilization on the Arabian peninsula dated to just 700 B.C., more than 200 years after the Queen of Sheba's lifetime. But in the late 1980s, pottery shards from Wadi al-Jubah, not far from Marib, was found to be 3,500 years old. Suddenly, a wealth of other circumstantial evidence, both cultural and religious, made the Queen's existence seem a lot more plausible...
Nowadays every psychology student is taught that James and Piaget were wrong. From their earliest months, in fact, children interpret the world as a real and predictable place. It's the parents of an infant who experience the world as a blooming, buzzing confusion, says one psychologist. This new understanding is largely the legacy of Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Spelke...
...earliest experience with small business was waiting tables at age nine in his parents' Mexican restaurant in Kansas City, Mo. The first in his family to attend college, Barreto founded Barreto Insurance and Financial Services, a small company catering to Latinos. He worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaign and was confirmed to head the SBA last month. Barreto, 39, will take over just as Bush plans to slash the SBA's funding...