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David E. Feller, a pioneer in the fields of labor and civil rights law who was also known for his quirky love of bow ties and his “peppery and fiery” personality, died on Monday, Feb. 10, in Oakland, Calif...
...She’s not feeling good at all,” her mother said to the St. Paul Pioneer Press last week...
...already ended at West Hollywood's House of Blues. But upstairs, in the nightclub's Foundation Room, the party rocked on. The VIP area, decked out in opium-den chic, is where show-biz types go to guzzle champagne in roped-off security. Unfortunately, by the time rock-music pioneer Phil Spector met B-movie actress Lana Clarkson there, the careers of both had seen better days: he was a legendary has-been; she had been a wannabe for way too long. The encounter would prove fatal...
...John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, a pioneer in stem cell research, retraced the turbulent history of that promising field, which he lamented had lately acquired an ?Alice in Wonderland quality? where things aren?t always what they seem. He blamed this partly on media hype, partly on ?lousy science? and partly on political pressures - notably the Bush administration?s decision to sharply limit the availability of human embryonic stem cells. Still, he cited a number of promising recent experiments in which stem cells were used to repair damaged tissue in animals; for example, he showed a video...
...Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, one of Avery’s predecessors. The report noted that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, through the Office of Race Relations & Minority Affairs (ORRMA), an extinct structure similar to the RCD Initiative also headed by Hernandez-Gravelle, Harvard dared to be a pioneer in race relations by addressing “the reasons why people did not naturally come together.” However, within a year of Hernandez-Gravelle’s 1992 departure, the office—and the proactive programs it spearheaded—all but disappeared, leaving the Race Relations...