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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace I found in the utterance of these words is the simple one that I find every time I make a conscious decision to stop worrying about things utterly beyond my control, instead allowing them to grow and develop as they may. It's not complacency; instead it is faith. Cynics and pessimists see this trust--this faith--as the purview of the innocent and the naive...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: B>Pollyanna, Call Your Office | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...peace I found in the utterance of these words is the simple one that I find every time I make a conscious decision to stop worrying about things utterly beyond my control, instead allowing them to grow and develop as they may. It's not complacency; instead it is faith. Cynics and pessimists see this trust--this faith--as the purview of the innocent and the naive...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Pollyanna, Call Your Office | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...nation described in your cover story continues to grow [MUSIC, Feb. 8]. I am inspired by Lauryn Hill's music. When I have to get up at 5 a.m. and stand at the bus stop, I listen to her song Nothing Even Matters, and I am encouraged. A hip-hop nation is being formed by talented, beautiful and ambitious musicians. After 20 years, hip-hop still triggers artists to create on the basis of realistic truth. Hill is a part of my nation! TOMEKA HAYWARD Orangeburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...grow your own" organs is already upon us, as researchers have sidestepped the stem-cell controversy by making clever use of ordinary cells. Today a machinist in Massachusetts is using his own cells to grow a new thumb after he lost part of his in an accident. A teenager born without half of his chest wall is growing a new cage of bone and cartilage within his chest cavity. Scientists announced last month that bladders, grown from bladder cells in a lab, have been implanted in dogs and are working. Meanwhile, patches of skin, the first "tissue-engineered" organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Build a Body Part | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...thumb, Vacanti took some of the victim's bone cells, grew them in the lab and then injected them into a piece of coral fashioned into the shape of the missing digit. "Coral's got lots of interconnected channels for the bone cells to grow in," says Vacanti. It also degrades as bone replaces it. The patch was implanted back on the thumb a few months ago. "It looks like he's growing good bone," Vacanti reports. "He could get most of his function back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Build a Body Part | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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