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...Provost from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and will swear off food until he resigns. According to The Boston Globe, about 30 supporters joined his protest yesterday.Sherley has undergone extensive preparations for his strike. He said he has undergone tests for kidney, liver, and heart function, and has read up on the effects of starvation so he knows what to expect. A certified M.D., he will check his own blood pressure daily. An MIT medical team will be on call, he said. Sherley said he has had to resort to such desperate measures because...
...nice young man. Instead of a university, she went to the new Film School of Shanghai. The acting profession was somewhat glamorous even in Communist China, but those who worked in it did not receive higher pay or enjoy better working conditions than factory workers or teachers. The function of an actress was primarily to entertain the masses, so besides appearing in films, she often gave performances in factories, rural communes, coal mines and oil fields, traveling with her unit all over China. It was an arduous life, but she believed she was rendering service to her country...
...Comics are not necessarily trying to do what a Van Gogh on the wall was trying to do," he said. "They aren't the same kind of direct expression. They have something more in common with architectural drawings and set design. They are picture writing that has to function with other drawings on the same page...
...more than just weight loss. A research team at the University of Toronto is developing a "therapeutic video game" to treat children who suffer from hemiplegic cerebral palsy, a condition that can partially paralyze one side of the body. If the children regularly use their weaker side, their motor function can improve. The problem is getting the children to do so outside of therapy sessions. Active video games might do the trick, thought William Li, an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Toronto who is conducting research at the university's Bloorview Kids Rehab teaching hospital...
...present new therapeutic opportunities in the future, the new process still contains major complications that prevent it from being a viable source of embryonic stem cells, Cowan said. He explained that the fused, reprogrammed cells contain twice the number of chromosomes as normal cells and therefore do not function like normal human cells. While scientists attempt to understand and perfect cell reprogramming, Cowan said that current adult stem cell research should not impede methods using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases. “It may take us 10 to 15 years to really understand how to do this safely...