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...originally just to send some of the player data and player votes on the greatest accomplishments in humanity, and we thought it'd be cool to send some of their DNA. But what we found was that suddenly famous people from all over were going, Hey, can you take mine? We actually called the Colbert show because we thought aha, our opportunity has availed itself once again, and as soon as we called they were all over...
...works with stem cells at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. “It’s a tough time in the funding of biological sciences and particularly difficult for those of us trying to get careers off the ground. This is really transformative in new labs like mine...
...impoverished mine worker, Motlanthe came of age politically as a student activist during the Soweto uprising of 1976, and the following year was imprisoned for his role in those events. He spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position...
...bargaining I’ve done, or the number of times I’ve been scammed. It’s because, when that snake kept moving without its head, I suddenly felt very far away from home, and that feeling was very real.The other day, a friend of mine told me about riding on the back of a motorcycle taxi after work. I asked him if it was worth it, and his response said a lot about Shanghai. “It’s really fun,” he said, “but I couldn?...
...Still, there are those who see too much opportunity to quit the country. At the Sulawesi gold-mine site, Dave Morrison has begun hiring contractors to complete facilities construction. Archipelago hopes to start digging next year. "Everyone is telling the truth from their own aspect," Morrison says of the controversy surrounding the mine. "I'm confident that things will move forward." If Indonesia's leaders did more to reinforce that confidence, perhaps the country's promise, like its gold, won't always seem out of reach...