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...meantime, Ford quietly recalled vehicles from Venezuelan and Persian Gulf markets and replaced 40,000 to 60,000 high-mileage Firestone tires with those made by Goodyear. "You would have thought that they [Firestone] would have got the message," says a Ford official, in a none too subtle hint that the tiremaker should have addressed its own problems...
...Call every Representative on the fence; hint at a private pork roast B. Call a bipartisan commission to study the issues further C. Play golf; try to look good; lash out at do-nothing Congress...
...Brood a while; call a league pal, hint that ref needs glasses B. Scream until the ref recants C. Think to yourself: Gee, was the ref maybe right...
...alliance that these have no positive effect, the U.S. and Britain remain militarily engaged against Iraq by policing the "no-fly" zones they have declared in northern and southern Iraq. Although these zones aren't recognized by the United Nations, allied planes bomb Iraqi air defenses at the first hint that ground radar is locking on, supposedly to help keep Saddam on the defensive so that he can be overthrown. But while nobody's expecting that to happen any time soon, the bombing policy does create opportunities for Baghdad's campaign to end its isolation...
Even more exciting was the fact that the source of these new cells was neural-stem cells, master cells with the ability to morph into any type of brain cell, depending on the chemical signals they receive as they grow. Early studies hint that they may even belong to a more primitive population of stem cells that can form anything from skin to blood to liver. Gage showed that a part of the hippocampus contains actively developing neural-stem cells; he further speculated that this regeneration may eventually be controlled by the timely addition or subtraction...