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Scientific inspiration can come from anywhere - a person, an event, even an experiment gone awry. But perhaps nothing can drive innovation more powerfully than the passion born of tragedy. Or, in Douglas Melton's case, near tragedy. The co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) is one of the leading figures in the search for cures for presently incurable diseases, and his breakthrough work is challenging many long-held beliefs about the ways biology and human development work...
Like other teams, the South Africans strove to put a bit of home on their platter without alienating any of the judges, in this case by including some South African curry and passion fruit in their marinated cod. The Dutch topped one of their exquisite garnishes with pastry windmills. First-timers Uruguay served their oxtails in hand-painted ceramic pots from home. The British team's national touch came in the name they assigned their beef filet: Henry V. "It's a bit of fun," says team coach Roger Hulstone. "[England] beating the French at Agincourt, and all that." Adds...
...Visitor My favorite film of the year. It's about loss and passion, and it also introduces the audience to not one but three positive Muslim characters--an important and infrequent introduction in Western film...
...began to work his father's fields alongside a young girl named Nelly. He soon found himself filed with passion for what he would later call "man's first great pleasure in life," and wrote one of his earliest poems about the girl. As Burns grew, so did his success with women. Male friends became his unwilling wingmen and complained that Burns would leave them at a tavern if a feminine opportunity presented itself. Over the course of his life, the poet would father fourteen children by six different mothers (only one of whom he married...
...know politics is your passion, but you went to college on a French Horn scholarship. Do you still play...