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...more skeptical about the significance of each new claim. That's why there hasn't been so much excitement about a report published online Thursday by the journal Stem Cells. The authors claim to have created cloned human embryos that they believe are capable of producing stem cells - the raw material for all of the body's specialized tissues, from heart to muscle to liver and more...
This doesn't mean that baboons or bats can write like James Joyce. But scientists have identified a lot of common raw material that we all started out with. What makes us different is the peculiar evolutionary history our ancestors experienced as they adapted to life as savanna-wandering hunter-gatherers...
Romantic infatuation is different from both raw lust and the enduring commitment that keeps lovers together long after their besottedness has faded. We all know the symptoms: idealized thoughts of the loved one; swings of mood from ecstasy to despair, insomnia and anorexia; and the intense need for signs of reciprocation. Even the brain chemistry is different: lust is fueled (in both sexes) by testosterone, and companionate love by vasopressin and oxytocin. Romantic passion taps the same dopamine system that is engaged by other obsessive drives like drug addiction...
...shows up in a highly visible, not-so-private place. 7) Make a donation—a big donation. Make sure Harvard knows it’s from you. 8) Rub Hemp Granola crumbs into your contacts—temporary blindness trumps final exam. 9) Ingest several pounds of raw, room temperature cookie dough—if Salmonella doesn’t get you, queasiness will. 10) Poster gum yourself to the floor—claim physical and mental incompetency. 11) Get too friendly with the squirrels in the yard—rabies is the new scabies. 12) Have your...
...CLINE AND TAMMY Wynette were fine, thank you, but for Country Music Hall of Fame producer Ken Nelson, the orchestral, slickly produced Nashville sound of the '50s needed an update. As the understated, hands-off country guru at Capitol Records for 20 years, the California-based Nelson defined the raw, twangy style that became known as the Bakersfield sound, first with the 1952 Hank Thompson hit The Wild Side of Life and later by discovering Merle Haggard (above, at left) and Buck Owens...