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...That's because the President's list included some lines that were not available for scientific use and others that are tied up by private companies--a fact the White House readily acknowledges. All 12, moreover, were cultured using mouse cells as a growth medium, raising the fear that they might carry mouse DNA or mouse viruses...
...movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
...form. I used to collect them like a madman when I was an elementary school kid. But I got sick of them. I just thought they got predictable after a while, the stuff I was reading - the superhero stuff. So I just thought there was something limited about the medium itself. You could only do so much with it. I think a lot of people think that about comics. I sort of kept an eye open. I liked "Mad" comics and what [Harvey] Kurtzman [editor of "Mad"] was doing...
...Coke and a smile. Holiday destinations have attributes that exist only in the dreams of focus groups and tourism executives: no one actually needs to go to Langkawi or Lombok; vacationers in the U.S. and Europe have the sunny beaches of Hawaii, the Caribbean or Greece, all within a medium hop. Yet the urge to holiday far from home, plus a desire to feel adventurous or chic, continues to be tapped to endow places many Western travelers have never heard of with irresistible allure...
Martin said that the project was made possible by a $100,000 grant from the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation to preserve the documents. He said that while most librarians do not yet view the web as a suitable preservation medium, the digital repository offers a wider distribution and a longer time-frame. The project’s founders have been experimenting with the website for almost four years...