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...course, in order for the sweetener to do you harm, it had to make up at least 3% of the gross weight of food you ate every day--no easy task for a substance consumed by the quarter-teaspoonful. Oh, and it also helped if you were a laboratory rat, the only creature in which the saccharin-cancer link had ever been conclusively established...
...neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, has found that stem cells are attracted to injured tissues, perhaps because of biological cues released by dying or diseased cells. Indeed, one of Snyder's lab colleagues found that a batch of stem cells had migrated from one side of a rat's brain to the other to infiltrate a tumor...
...background is privileged as well. His father was an attorney, his mother an English teacher. Edward (don't call him Ed; there's nothing of the Honeymooners sewer rat about him) grew up in Columbia, Md., a town created by his grandfather, the social planner James Rouse. "My grandfather was a big fan of remaining fluid in your young life," Norton says, "of exploration and searching and seeking. He once offered to give me some money to keep me out of going into an investment-banking job." So the history major plunged into the New York City acting community. Before...
...campus, which kind of misled me into thinking I could be a rock star. [laughs] We'd have these gigs at Adams House parties, and the place would be packed, hundreds of people, dancing and making us think we were big shots. We started playing in clubs-The Rat, Cantone's, The Western Front-all these great old Boston clubs. Then we started playing in New York...
...secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels and the occasional rat...