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Several states have seen others' lack of legislation as an opportunity. The Massachusetts legislature last week backed a pro-research bill by a margin large enough to override an expected veto from Governor Mitt Romney, who promptly sent the bill back to lawmakers with four proposed amendments to weaken it. Zon says the bill, if enacted, would make Massachusetts more "stem cell friendly" than most states. California is the friendliest. Voters there approved Proposition 71 last November, backing $3 billion in state bonds to create a stem-cell-research fund, although delays in creating regulatory boards plus two lawsuits filed...
...Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a demonstration - worse, a celebration - of the dead end Hollywood movies have hit. Fortunately, Cannes offered a palate cleanser, a detoxification, in the form of Stuart Samuels' documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. It focuses on six films - El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead - that earned cult status in the 70s through midnight screenings at venues like Ben Barenholtz's Elgin Theatre in Manhattan...
...varsity’s 6.4-second shocker over No. 1 Princeton was the closest margin of the season for Harvard. With a 17-second thrashing of No. 4 Navy on April 23, the Crimson left little doubt about its perennial dual-season dominance...
Trailing 5-2 late in the second quarter and in danger of letting the game get out of hand, the Crimson rallied. Junior attackman Steve Cohen tallied while Harvard was on man-up with just under three minutes remaining, and tri-captain attackman Mike McBride narrowed the margin to one by scoring a goal—the 60th of his brilliant collegiate career—with just one second remaining before halftime...
...Avon, Lauder's revenues have been climbing at an 8% clip annually. "If the deal works, great," says Linda Bolton Weiser, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "If it doesn't, they aren't betting the ranch." Hip makeup brands like M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown and a stable of high-margin skin creams and hair-care products should keep the company growing in the short term. Ford says he'll be mining Lauder's archives for ideas. "I'll be able to reintroduce the Lauder brand to a generation that really doesn't remember the iconic things Estée introduced...