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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Tooth Fairy's New Tricks | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Matthew J. Amato, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bridging the Gap | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Harvard, A New Home | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya and Stephanie E. Butler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Art of War | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inul's Rules | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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