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THUMBS UP Wouldn't it be great if you could grow your own body parts? Well, an experiment begun three years ago to do just that has proved a resounding success. After a Massachusetts machinist lost part of his thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his...
In the largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights...
High-stakes testing has the support of about three-fourths of adults in nationwide polls--but not, it appears, in Roanoke Rapids. "If they have kids with straight A's, they think it's fine," said the mother of a struggling fifth-grader. "But I think there's too much...
The music isn’t bad, it just manages to avoid any recognizable musicality. It is riddled with narrative bits and overcrowded lyrics that make it reminiscent of an overblown rock opera à la The Who’s Tommy, but there’s not really enough...
"This is a social experiment. It if would work anywhere, it would work in Cambridge," Heintz said. "There's a problem, and we think this is a viable solution."