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Watch video clips of the brother and sister team, Vova and Olga Galchenko, as they grow up juggling together. They juggle behind their backs, over their shoulders, through their legs, and in dozens of other ways - and they make it look so easy
...might explain the sex difference. Women's bodies appear to have greater difficulty repairing the damage to their genes caused by smoking, but there is also some evidence that estrogen, which is found in women's lungs as well as their ovaries, may interfere with some tumors' ability to grow...
...field of instability even as the U.S. struggles with crises in places like Iraq and Iran. Israel's strikes against Lebanon have provoked Shi'ite radicals in Iraq, who are threatening to attack U.S. troops in retaliation. The most chilling scenario is that the Israeli-Lebanese dispute could grow into a wider war, if Hizballah's backers in Iran or Syria decide or are provoked to join the fray--a possibility that grew when Israeli intelligence claimed on Saturday that Iranian forces helped Hizballah fighters hit an Israeli ship off the coast of Beirut, killing one sailor. (Iran denies...
...which was up 33% from 2003. By redeploying its resources toward broadening its audience, the rationale goes, AOL will be able to compete more efficiently, dropping, among other costs, the hundreds of millions it has been spending to attract new subscribers. The risk is that advertising sales won't grow quickly enough to offset the loss of subscription dollars...
...regenerative medicine. The "presidential lines" were of limited value; there were not nearly as many as scientists initially thought would be available--more like 21 than 62, and they were old, in some cases damaged and most likely contaminated with the mouse feeder cells and calf serum used to grow them. Top U.S. scientists, many of whom depend on federal grants, decamped to labs in Europe or Singapore, where the government has made biotechnology a national priority. Some states have tried to fill the gap--California voted for a $3 billion bond initiative to fund stem-cell research. Advocates from...