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...furniture by accident. But even the most domesticated lion is still too wild for London, so Bourke and Rendall embarked on the long, arduous task of rehabilitating their oversized housecat into the wild. With the help of lion expert George Adamson, they flew Christian to Kenya and helped him establish his own lion pride. A year later, Bourke and Rendall returned to Kenya to visit their lion. A video of their encounter and what happened next has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube. (Read TIME's 1989 article on Adamson's murder by suspected poachers...
...studies like this establish only an association, not a cause; fertility doctors note that infertility itself is associated with elevated risks of uterine cancer. "It's hard to say if the cancer was caused by the disease, the treatment of the disease or some combination of the two," says Elizabeth Ginsburg, a fertility doctor and president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology...
...Thursday, the proposal outlines general changes in four areas: the limitation of broad economic risks, the enhancement of consumer and investor protections, the closure of gaps in regulatory oversight, and the global coordination of any actions that are undertaken. The most aggressive of Geithner’s reforms would establish a systemic-risk overseer—possibly the Federal Reserve—that would serve as a super-regulator in charge of making sure no firms took on too much risk. The plan would also raise capital and risk-management standards, ensuring that firms safeguard a larger proportion of their...
...help or a hindrance to more intimate films - to the buddy comedies that are among the most reliable of Hollywood moneymakers, or to those prestige dramas, the high-minded equivalent of TV movies, that keep getting nominated for the Best Picture Oscar? These films don't want to establish a hyper-reality, just a familiar reality that brings the viewer immediately into the lives of their characters. Paul Blart, or the kids from Slumdog Millionaire, would not have benefitted from the in-your-lap urgency...
...wasn't until earlier this year that investigators figured something had to be very wrong. Trying to establish the identity of a burned corpse found in 2002, they were re-examining the fingerprints of a male asylum seeker taken from his asylum application made many years earlier. The fingerprints contained the Phantom's female DNA. Impossible, they thought, so they repeated the test with a different cotton swab - and this time found no trace of the Phantom...