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In the 1970s, when access to computers was limited and expensive, Michael Hart's pals at the University of Illinois computer lab gave him what amounted to $100 million worth of free computer time. Hart, son of a Shakespeare professor and a mathematician, decided to harness the new technology to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Hart | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Different kinds of blood cells, red and white, come from a single kind of stem cell in bone marrow. These chameleon-like stem cells transform themselves into whatever kind of blood cells the body needs. The skin and liver have their own stem cells. "Maybe there is a brain stem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Grow A New Brain? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Gage's finding--coupled with Snyder's report that same month of stem cells in the fetal human brain--has stood neuroscience on its head, so to speak. As has the latest finding, announced last month by researchers at Princeton, that adult macaque monkeys are constantly growing new cells in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Grow A New Brain? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

--$3,000 for the children of licensed harness-racing drivers

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Left-Handed Caddies Named Gatlin: Payday! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

The helicopters came around in a circle, into the wind, to get better control. Then they lowered a diver on a rope. Navy rescue swimmer Shad Hernandez came into the water about 30 yds. from us. He put a harness on each of us, and we were hauled into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrift in Floyd: It Was Like Watching Hope Float Away | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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