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...connections to Pakistan - one senior Pakistan official told TIME that nine men have been arrested in Pakistan over the past few days in connection to the plot. And French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a press conference today that the "team of terrorists appears to be of Pakistani origin." But other reports indicate that the suspects were British-born with some ties to Pakistan. Either way, only a year after the July 7 bombings, Britons are once again reminded that al-Qaeda-inspired extremists could be living right next door...
...patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly put aside their Catalán when I was within earshot. While my American accent did not convince anyone that I was a local and my occasional lapse of grammar or vocabulary made my origin even more obvious, I could still understand and be understood. That is until I had Catalán to contend with.After two weeks, I worked with a different doctor. The first patient entered and fifteen minutes of Catalán conversation ensued. Afterward, I politely asked the doctor if he would please speak Castellan...
Less plastic than cord-blood cells are adult stem cells, which until recently researchers thought couldn't do much more than regenerate cell types that reflected the stem cells' origin--blood and immune cells from bone marrow, for example. Even so, some scientists believe adult stem cells may prove to be a powerful source of therapies. "In some cases, you may not want to go all the way back to embryonic stem cells," says Kurtzberg. "You may want something more specific or less likely to stray. You wouldn't want to put a cell in the brain and find...
...Siku moja tu—only one day,” his reassuring voice uttered. Well, where might I sign up? “Sayansi.” For the uninitiated, in Swahili, “I” is appended to the end of many words of alien origin. Hilariously, my dictionary shows the term for “highway rotary” as “kipulefti.”But I had heard of “Sayansi,” by which they mean COSTECH, the National Commission on Science and Technology. To be precise...
That is the question that vexes travelers seeking air tickets--buy, or wait in hope of a price drop? Thanks to computer scientist Oren Etzioni, an answer may be just a few mouse clicks away. Etzioni's site Farecast.com original name was, of course, Hamlet--provides the lowest fare on a route, a 90-day price history and, using a novel predictive algorithm, a tip to "buy now" or "wait," along with a figure indicating how confident Farecast is in its advice. (Flyers buy directly from the airlines.) Boston and Seattle are currently the only searchable points of origin...