Word: limitless
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That potential seems almost limitless today. In principle, stem cells could be used for a vast array of profitable--and lifesaving--therapies. They could, in theory, be coaxed into forming heart cells, for example, and injected to patch up heart muscle damaged by cardiovascular disease. They might be turned into neurons to replace brain cells destroyed by Alzheimer's. They may someday provide new pancreatic cells to pump insulin into the bloodstream of diabetics...
...list goes on to include virtually any disorder that involves the loss of normal cells: stroke, muscular dystrophy, spinal-cord injury, kidney or liver disease, blindness caused by degeneration of the retina. Stem cells could also provide drug companies with a limitless supply of normal human tissues to use in testing the toxicity of new drugs. "This is a fairly unique resource," says Johns Hopkins team leader John Gearhart, in a masterpiece of understatement...
...have to start soon. As the feds broadcast a seemingly limitless stock of quotes from Gates's videotaped testimony that are flatly contradicted by internal memos and e-mails, the Microsoft boss is fast becoming his own worst enemy. While Gates told the shareholders that the DOJ had "misused e-mail snippets to create a false impression," his lawyers have used none of their lengthy periods of cross-examination to offer a better context. And the combination of Gates's dismissive attitude and faulty memory won't go down well with the judge either, says Cohen: "You need...
Well, what on the Palace isn't? The community's primary units of currency are scripts and props, the limitless rainbow of graphical snippets used to perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says...
...signs of slowing--and we are the ones with the skills to fix them. This summer I worked at the civil rights division of the United States Department of Education. Based on my experience there, all your perceptions of the public sector are probably right. Bureaucratic regulations are limitless, and many of those in government posts are neither hard-working nor ambitious. These are not the people we want working on some of our most important problems...