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...think of playing the bad guy in Heat instead of the cop? -Daniel Szczepankiewicz, stationed in BaghdadAs a matter of fact I sort of liked the idea of playing the cop, because I thought he had these complications and contradictions. In that movie my character shipped cocaine but nobody knew it because the couple of scenes that I did it in were cut out. So there was that element too that was appealing to me, this intense detective who indulged himself and had a very mixed up unhappy life...
...March 2006, just months after the South Korean stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk-who had become an international sensation after claiming to have cloned a human embryo, a first-had been exposed as a fraud. As another Asian stem-cell scientist announcing a surprise advance, Yamanaka knew his peers would put him under the microscope. "I was very nervous," he recalls. A few weeks later at a scientific conference in Whistler, Canada, where he delivered his findings to an audience of international colleagues, "I could tell from their tone that many people did not believe me," he says...
...list of 24 possible genes he thought were instrumental in cell programming, and was ready to begin testing them. There was no guarantee any of the 24 suspects were the right ones, and when Yamanaka offered the experiment to one of his students, the researcher turned him down. "We knew the chance that the correct answer was in those 24 factors was very small," says Yamanaka during an interview in his cramped office on the second floor of Kyoto University Hospital. "It was a risky project, and you had to be very brave...
...Fortunately, Yamanaka had one student who was brave-or at least, knew when to say yes to his boss. Takahashi spent endless hours screening the candidate genes. "Perhaps this is not something Kyoto University should know, but I worked 365 days a year," Takahashi laughs. Using retroviruses to deliver the genes into mouse skin cells, Yamanaka and Takahashi eventually narrowed the number down to four active genes that triggered the transformation...
...former Colorado Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, who spoke on behalf of the Rocky Flats workers, says Congress did try to fix things. Beauprez grew up near Rocky Flats and knew families with three generations of Rocky Flats workers. He called the workers "patriots." He said, "We won that [cold] war. And knowing full well there was risk inherent, they did their jobs.... Democrats and Republicans in Congress - all representatives of the taxpayers - said, 'Take care of these people.' 'Don't submit these people to endless torture. These people...