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Scientific inspiration can come from anywhere - a person, an event, even an experiment gone awry. But perhaps nothing can drive innovation more powerfully than the passion born of tragedy. Or, in Douglas Melton's case, near tragedy. The co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) is one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem-Cell Research: The Quest Resumes | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Depending on your favorite sci-fi yarns, teleportation is either a very, very bad idea (see: The Fly) or a very, very cool one (see: Star Trek). For scientists, it's just very, very complex, so much so that at this point, teleportation is not a matter of moving matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teleportation Is Real – But Don't Try It at Home | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

In the experiment, some people were asked to watch the last few mawkish minutes of the 1979 film The Champ, which involves a dying boxer and his wailing boy. Others watched a dry nature clip. Subjects induced to feel sad were willing to spend significantly more money on a sporty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Our Way Out of the Recession | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Re Michael Grunwald's "One. Trillion. Dollars": Obama's economic plan is a huge gamble [Jan. 26]. But suppose each of us who is to receive the $500 tax refund vows to spend it only on products manufactured in the U.S. I have looked at the labels lately and acknowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

By 1997, the franchise had become successful enough that ESPN launched the Winter X Games, featuring skiers and snowboarders. The winter event eventually got substantially more "extreme" with the inclusion of sports like snowmobile freestyle and ice climbing - a strenuously athletic yet visually uninspiring sport that didn't prove popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Games | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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