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...Tommy Thompson's claim that they are robust and viable for research. Goteborg University, for instance, was credited with the world's largest cache--19 lines--even though its researchers had told Thompson the week before that only three had progressed beyond the earliest, most tentative stages. Goteborg fertility expert Lars Hamberger told the Washington Post that he and his colleagues thought the White House either had made a "mistake" or had decided to "stretch things" to suit its need for a larger number. And while the tiny San Diego biotech firm CyThera Inc. was credited with the largest number...
...Waters Turned to Blood traces the investigation by botanist JoAnn Burkholder of a mysterious microorganism linked to massive fish kills in North Carolina waters in the 1990s. Jusiewicz felt further inspired when Burkholder delivered the convocation address. "To see a woman who's got her doctorate and become an expert in her field made me feel that I could do it too," Jusiewicz recalls...
...June show at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma broke $2.5 million in sales on the opening night alone. Prices are soaring back East as well. "People look at Western art more seriously now for its contribution to American culture," says Eric Widing, Christie's American paintings expert. "Plus it's good...
Rice's personal story of hard work helps explain her tenacity. She grew up under segregation in Birmingham, Ala., willed her way to college at age 15 and eventually became a Soviet expert in the White House of Bush I--finding time along the way to become an accomplished pianist, ice skater and sports buff. Her hard-line positions have surprised even seasoned alumni of Republican administrations. J. Stapleton Roy, Bush Sr.'s ambassador to China, says Rice is "prone to the naive view that we are strong and they are weak and we should ruthlessly exploit that." Rice, like...
...language and culture. He studied the people intensely?"as academic subjects," he now says, "not as human beings"?before leaving to tell the world. His academic ambitions and the region's politics prevented his return. It wasn't until 1999 that this man, who still considers himself a Tuareg expert, realized that he couldn't even answer a simple question: What had happened to them since...