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Eli Lilly, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which routinely places multimillion-dollar bets on drug candidates that face overwhelming odds of failure, wanted to see if it could get a better idea of which compounds would succeed. So last year Lilly ran an experiment in which...
Perhaps most challenging to America's present aspirations is Jefferson's belief that blacks and whites could never coexist as equal citizens of the U.S. Whites, he said, would never give up their prejudices against blacks, and blacks would never forgive what whites had done to them. This is often...
Haiti's very existence highlighted the deepest contradictions of the American revolutionary experiment. Though the U.S. Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created equal, Haitian slaves and free men and women of color battled what was then one of the world's most powerful armies to prove it...
Researchers in St. Louis, Mo., and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St...
In the first European Parliament elections since E.U. expansion, citizens yawned at the grand experiment: 45.5% - an all-time low - took part. Turnout was worst in the new E.U. states; 21% of Poles and 17% of Slovaks cast ballots. Voters punished ruling parties and boosted Euro-skeptics across the E.U...