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...maquinaria pol?tica sin afiliaci?n de partido m?s antigua del pa?s?el Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) y su brazo pol?tico, el William C. Vel?squez Institute. Su trabajo carece de glamour?armar casillas de inscripci?n en las bodegas, analizar datos del censo, capacitar los candidatos a la junta escolar. Pero los resultados han sido espectaculares. Cuando Gonz?lez, un veterano activista comunitario de 48 a?os, tom? las riendas de la organizaci?n en 1994, s?lo 5 millones de hispanos estaban inscritos para votar en todo el pa?s. Hoy hay 9.3 millones. En la ?ltima elecci?n presidencial, el 81.5% de ellos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antonio Gonz?lez | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...work, restoring the enzyme that the babies lacked and causing affected nerve cells to regrow myelin insulation and healthy ones to keep what they had. "The cells go everywhere, but they seem to be more attracted to areas where there's injury," says neurodevelopmental pediatrician Maria Escolar, the study's lead author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the U.S.: Stem Cells Save Babies | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...surviving babies have had varying degrees of recovery, with the symptomatic ones remaining disabled but deteriorating more slowly and in some cases improving a bit. The mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic babies, though, did much, much better. "Our oldest survivor is 6 1/2," says Escolar. "She's now running, jumping and doing well in school." Best of all, since the stem cells take up residence in the brain and reproduce there like native cells, it appears to take just one dose of the therapy to achieve whatever recovery is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the U.S.: Stem Cells Save Babies | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

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