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Kids who lose a baby tooth will often put it under their pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But Julia Shi's dad Songtai is a dentist and a medical researcher at the National Institutes of Health. When Julia, then 6, shed a tooth recently, they noticed that a little piece of red pulp was still attached. That gave him an idea, and the next time she lost a tooth, he placed it in a liquid used to culture cells. Back at the lab, he extracted the pulp and found that it contained a number of stem cells, those special progenitor...
...cleaning workers. Kolenik, who has taught English as a second language at institutions from Roxbury to Vietnam, began Bridge as a pilot program at the Harvard Faculty Club. Employees were having trouble reading notes their guests had left for them, she says; requests for new light bulbs, an extra pillow or an undisturbed desk were either ignored or misunderstood by the housekeepers due to their poor English...
...There was too much noise in my head at the end of the day,” Murray says of her time at Harvard. “When I put my head down on my pillow, I want to hear my own voice. I just need to sit with myself and relax for a while...
...textual piece she described was a sculpture—a music box that will translate “letter by letter” the state of the union address into musical notes, which would play from within a pillow...
...cities in 11 days, the heart of a brutal if-this-is-Monday-it-must-be-Balikpapan tour of the Kalimantan region. With reddened eyes and leftover makeup?not to mention the diamonds embedded in her teeth?she looks older than her 24 years but acts younger, clutching a pillow to her chest and resting her head on a TIME reporter's shoulder. In 10 hours she'll be doing her heavy-duty Fly Girl routine on a Pelaihari stage; 12 hours after that, she'll be in Jakarta running through a version of her moves for SCTV. She hasn...