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Resistance was a struggling hate-music label when William Pierce, perhaps America's leading neo-Nazi, bought it two years ago as a recruiting medium. Pierce, head of the white supremacist National Alliance, has been a pioneer in developing multi-media hooks to ensnare young people in his hate brigades. He has used magazines, leaflets, short-wave radio, the Internet, even hate comic books. He has also used novels: Pierce, a onetime Oregon State physics professor, is best known as the author of The Turner Diaries, a bloody tale that may have inspired Timothy McVeigh...
Today Jacobs' brainchild, FLW Tour (named after bass-boat pioneer Forrest L. Wood), has moved tournament bass fishing from the swampy border of sports to deep in the mainstream. Each week pro fishermen aboard boats that resemble floating billboards--welcome to BASSCAR--seek out big fish and big bucks. There are now four separate bass tours and a fifth for walleye that began this year. At this year's championship, to be held on Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, N.Y., the winner will net $250,000. Says Irwin: "I'm sitting here feeling pretty good...
Thompson was a major advocate of the idea that already existing lines of stem cells might serve as the basis for compromise. He spoke from time to time with James Thomson, the stem-cell pioneer at the University of Wisconsin (see America's Best), who had led him to believe there could be useful research with even a limited number of stem-cell lines...
...much developing cures as creating research and manufacturing techniques. For that, the specific cell lines aren't important. "This will enable the biomedical community to iron out the molecular biology of these cells," says Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEO of the biotech firm Geron, which finances stem-cell pioneer James Thomson as well as John Gearhart, "and that doesn't turn on one cell line vs. another...
...Children's Hospital in Boston with Judah Folkman, one of the world's leading cancer researchers. It may have seemed an odd choice for an engineer with a bankable resume, but it gave Langer a unique perspective on a fast-growing field. He has since become the leading pioneer of modern biomedical engineering, earning scores of awards and distinctions and nearly 400 patents...