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...woman's windpipe was rebuilt using her own stem cells. The operation, performed on 30-year-old Claudia Castillo this past June, seeded a stripped-down segment of a donor's trachea with stem cells from Castillo's bone marrow, ensuring a perfect tissue match and reducing the likelihood of transplant rejection. The procedure has been championed as a milestone that could pave the way for radical improvements in organ transplants and the treatment of serious diseases...
...reunify all the factions in the Tibetan exile movement" at a time when it appears to be at its most fragmented. "He's been criticized strongly in the past for not allowing free discussion. This is a great way to answer that criticism," Barnett says. He thinks the likelihood of the more radical voices gaining the upper hand in the discussions is low. "They are a minority among the exile community and they are a tiny majority among ordinary Tibetans living in China, the vast majority of whom will support whatever the Dalai Lama decides." In fact, reports indicate that...
...problem, of course, is that the Big One never comes. California has more than 300 faults running beneath its surface, including the massive San Andreas Fault, yet the quake to end all quakes has yet to occur. In 1980, a federal report declared the likelihood of a major earthquake striking California within the next 30 years to be "well in excess of 50%." Seismologists predicted a 1993 earthquake in the community of Parkfield - which lies along the San Andreas Fault - but the quake did not come until 2004. Earthquake prediction is a tricky practice, and one that, for all their...
...only worsen after likely additional cuts in January and also in the following fiscal year. “We can assume that things are likely to get more challenging this year and next before they get easier,” she said. “There is a high likelihood that the budget in 2010 will not restore the cuts.” The North Cambridge Crime Task Force lost around $12,000 of state money from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which amounts to a 25 percent reduction in salary for its 25-hour-a-week...
Schwarzenegger, Arnold •likelihood of being offered a position in the Obama administration is drastically diminished...