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...During that conference in Guangzhou, a Chinese participant asked, "Is there anything we can learn from America?" I told him I thought there was. "The U.S. has always shown an amazing ability to change itself, to morph into new things," I said. "I'm hoping that it will do so once again." Perhaps I'm nostalgic for a bygone era. Or perhaps I just realize the world is better off with a thriving America than a declining...
...grab viewers is the dynamic storytelling (partly in mockumentary form), the gruesome yet sympathetic aliens, the robot suit that briefly turns Wikus into Iron Man, and the surfeit of body parts exploding. Like David Cronenberg - especially in his masterpiece, The Fly - Blomkamp is fascinated by the ways our bodies morph, decay and betray us. And like Jackson's early, grotty films (Bad Taste, Braindead - the titles say it all), District 9 revels in its mixture of horror and loopy humor and in the propensity for odd-looking creatures to suddenly go splat...
...curatorial work in the gallery with Calder’s portraits is striking. Six busts in wire hang from the ceiling in front of a white wall. Spotlights shine on these three-dimensional contour caricatures, casting shadows on the wall behind. The shadows morph from profile to three-quarter to frontal views, as the wire busts rotate in space...
...outside, however, IVD sperm are not identical to normal sperm. "We think, for normal structure development, sperm needs the testes environment," says Nayernia. It takes 15 to 16 years in the testes before the primordial germ cells that morph into spermatogonia, or a primitive precursor of the germ cells, are able to mature into sperm cells that can successfully fertilize an egg. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
John McQuaid (5:30 p.m.) How did Michael Kelly bringing Fawn Hall to the '87 WH Correspondents Dinner - a witty gesture - morph into today's icky #nerdprom...