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Talk about method acting. Just three months after wrapping her role as the pregnant unwed teenage Virgin Mary in Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip...
...because Williams’ method is qualitative and his case simple, the book strains to reach 200 pages while staying fresh—the most recurring flaw is the endless repetition, much of which is because Williams quotes Cosby ad nauseum. The first and last chapters are largely dedicated to the comedian, and in every chapter in between, Cosby is worked into the introduction and conclusion. The book often reads alternatively as an extended transcript of Cosby’s speeches and an attorney’s brief defending the comedian...
...producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning's most ardent supporters agree that such a method won't be very reliable, or very realistic. If therapeutic cloning, as it is known, is to become a viable treatment option, then the first thing scientists need to do is boost the cloning technique's efficiency...
...made up of African-Americans) would have to make do without these luxuries. Described by many as “innovative” and “daring,” this systematic inequality will likely radically change the game’s dynamic.Many have also lauded the new method of voting in tribal council. While Seiku is going to remain on the somewhat stale “one man, one vote” model, Anawatu tribe members will only be able to vote in tribal council after passing a complex “Survivor Literacy Test” about...
...that, it was on to co-found Intel, the company that first made the microprocessors that enabled the computer, which enabled practically everything we do today--except, perhaps, tending to the sick. "In a modern ICU, there is data acquisition on top of data acquisition, and the data-collection method is a clipboard," says Grove, eliciting a chuckle from the crowd. "Show me one more industry where that's how it works...