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...However, HBO's Oliva said his confidence in Capadocia was bolstered by the reaction of his 70-year-old mother to the series. At first, Oliva was worried the graphic violence, swearing and lesbian sex scenes would earn him a scolding. "I thought she might be angry with me," Oliva said. "Instead she told me, 'That is the reality in our country.' And she was dying to watch the second episode...
...like Frankenfood, scientists note that in vitro tissue engineering is not the same as genetic engineering, a common misconception. "We use natural cells from natural animals," says Dr. Vladimir Mironov, a tissue engineer and assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. "We don't change Mother Nature, we just try to imitate it." But there's always room for improvement - scientists can design meat, for example, that is high in healthy fats, such as omega 3s and 6s. Creating the meat in a lab also decreases its exposure to bacteria and disease, which have riddled the livestock industry...
...many ways, Rubinger's history parallels that of Israel. Born in 1924 in Vienna, he became a Zionist socialist and migrated to Palestine, escaping the Holocaust, which consumed his mother and many relatives. After the war for independence - or as Palestinians call it, al naqba, the disaster - Rubinger was too much of a maverick to be anything but a photojournalist. His first internationally published shots were of a small diplomatic incident: a patient in a Catholic hospital on the Green Line had dropped her false teeth out the window onto the Jordanian side, and after much negotiation, the nuns were...
...course on the mechanics of brewing and the metabolic aspects of yeast activity.Under the tutelage of Senior Lecturer on Chemistry Gregory Tucci, Eisele began his first independent study course in the spring of his junior year, while also pursuing an unpaid internship at Harpoon Brewery.Eisele’s mother, Anne Eisele, says she was supportive yet surprised by her son’s academic pursuit. “At first I thought he was joking,” she says. “I didn’t even realize that Harvard had an independent study program...
...controversy also touches on an ongoing debate over Britain's warrior princes. Prince William, and to a lesser extent his brother Harry, has been the country's cherished son since the premature death of his mother, Princess Diana. The struggle for the military has been to harness the image of the well-favored child - the codename of William's flight training was "Golden Kestrel" - while also protecting him from the prospect of sudden death in a combat zone. When news broke that Prince Harry had been serving in the dangerous Helmand province, many British papers lionized his bravery and commended...