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...hope for increasing the nation's too-small supply of transplantable organs came Thursday as researchers publicized the completion of a significant step forward in developing pig organs for use in human patients. The announcements came from scientists on two different teams, one from PPL Therapeutics Inc. in Blacksburg, Virginia, and the other representing a joint effort by the University of Missouri and Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc., based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Both groups reported they have produced pigs that lack GGTA1, one of two genes that cause the human body to reject organs harvested from swine. Experts, while careful to note...
...liberal crowd with his tales of the political iconoclast’s lonely life. “People recognize me on the street and they spit on me,” he said. “People go by my white board and write ‘Die Fascist Pig.’” He then led a singalong to “Part of Your World,” from the Little Mermaid. We are not making this up. We’re thinking about voting Republican...
...lonely, lovely girl the young Audrey Hepburn played. Tautou, though she lacks Hepburn's petrifying beauty, is worth comparing to the Audrey. Her tight, seraphic smile holds a universe of promise and mystery; and in the right light, she's adorable. From her first prominent role, as a pig-tailed salon assistant in Tonie Marshall's 1999 Venus Beauty Institute, Tautou has been France's Star of Tomorrow du jour...
...think about messages or themes when I'm making my movies," he claims. "My goal is only to entertain." His genius is to cloak potent themes in stories that enchant. It's hard not to read an antiwar message in Porco Rosso, about a fighter pilot transformed into a pig, or an ecological warning in NausicaA of the Valley of the Winds, which depicts a future world rendered nearly unlivable by pollution...
After entering the restaurant, we caught a glimpse of the pig decorated t-shirts and baby coveralls that hung from the walls and ceiling of the entrance and brightly decorated upstairs dining room. Taking the advice of a certain Harvard graduate and potential welfare recipient, we headed to the downstairs dining room, where we found ourselves surrounded by black walls with silly, unrelated-to-BBQ, cartoon-like paintings executed in neon colors: A dog with a martini glass talking on his cell phone on the beach? No way! Above us, on the ceiling, were neon green, yellow, orange...