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...each of us did not become obvious until 1963, when Canadian researchers Ernest McCulloch and James Till first proved the existence of stem cells, in the blood. These cells possess the ability to divide and create progeny - some of which will eventually expire, others that are self-renewing. The pair irradiated mice, destroying their immune cells. They then injected versatile bone-marrow cells into the animals' spleens and were surprised to see a ball of cells grow from each injection site. Each mass turned out to have emerged from a single stem cell, which in turn generated new blood cells...
...mother." As one of the Dionne girls - the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy, born 75 years ago on May 28 - Cecile spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie were quickly made wards...
Logitech Squeezebox Boom With a beefy, bassy 30-watt amp and a pair of high-performance speakers, the Boom ($260) is built to shake the room. And there's no end to the tunes you can blast out of this little black box. It can wirelessly stream Web stations and - if you can't find anything you like online - music stored on your PC's hard drive. It also connects to personalized internet radio services like Last.fm, Pandora and Slacker. www.logitech.com...
...kills, but Harvard kept the game close. With the score tied at 24, Springfield shot ahead on a 6-2 run to force the fifth and final game. Although the two squads remained neck-and-neck the entire night, Harvard finally yielded to break the tie. After a pair of Pride double-blocks, Springfield seized a 9-6 lead and didn’t look back, topping the Crimson, 15-8, for the game and the win. “They used the crowd, and we kind of gave it to them [in the fifth game], but I think...
Highlight Reel: 1. On a Washington, D.C. judge suing his dry cleaner for $54 million for allegedly losing a pair of his pants: "It illustrates again an important truth about human nature-that angry people can go nuts. This in turn illustrates an important point about how to run a system of justice: We can't trust people to be reasonable when they get involved in lawsuits. What was most shocking about this case was not the idiotic claim, however, but that the case was allowed to go on for more than two years-complete with sworn testimony...