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Much of the year, the air in Beijing hangs as thick as egg-drop soup. Even the billboards promoting a "green Olympics" in 2008 are covered in grime. And this ancient city, where a traffic policeman's life expectancy hovers around 40 years, is hardly alone. The World Bank calls China home to 16 of the 20 most polluted cities on earth, making the country's blighted environment a cautionary corollary to its economic success. Environmental degradation robs the nation of up to 12% of its GDP, according to the World Bank, and each year 300,000 Chinese die prematurely...
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...while the size of Harvard’s nest egg may present a plethora of investment challenges, one thing is certain, according to Ann E. Kaplan, who is director of the Voluntary Support of Education Survey at the Council for the Aid to Education...
...while the size of Harvard’s nest egg may present a plethora of investment challenges, one thing is certain, according to Ann E. Kaplan, who is director of the Voluntary Support of Education Survey at the Council for the Aid to Education...
After DNA from a human patient is inserted into a hollowed-out egg, the fused cell is stimulated electrically and chemically to get it to start dividing. At that point, other researchers have used animal-based growth factors and feeder cells to sustain the growing egg, but that creates problems if the cells are going to be used to treat humans. So Hwang has concocted a growth medium made of human-based nutrients, starting with human skin cells from one of the donor subjects...