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...GRNOPC1 cells, Geron scientists have learned more about how they operate, which will expand their understanding of how the central nervous system might be healed. Says Geron's president and CEO, Dr. Thomas Okarma: "They make dozens of factors that can stimulate nerve function, growth and regeneration." (Read "Scientists Reach Stem-Cell Milestone...
...season in the mid-latitudes - that includes Europe and America in the Northern Hemisphere - by a couple of weeks. The growing season is defined as the period between the last frost in spring and first frost in the fall. Some crops that need the whole growing season would not reach fruition and there would be no yield. Others would grow more slowly and produce a small yield. In addition there would be less precipitation and it would be darker, also damaging yield. You compound that with [the shutdown of] the current global network of food trading - countries would likely stop...
...order to reach so precise a finding, the study's authors had to do some exhaustive number-crunching, surveying pollution rates and longevity in 51 cities across the U.S. over a 21-year period from 1979 to 2000. Overall, they found that lifespan in all of the areas increased by an average of nearly three years - from 74 to 77 - as a result of a host of factors, most notably reduced smoking and improved income. But 15% of the change was attributable to cleaner...
...French and the top-left drawer opens. A pale, lithe arm extends into the darkness, a lit cigarette in its hand. The next few minutes are simultaneously hilarious, disturbing, and beautiful, and they aptly set the tone for the rest of the show. An impossible series of limbs reach out from within the drawers to dress each other, light a candle, and pour wine. Finally, Aurélia emerges from the center drawer. It seems too easy to cite Thierrée’s family as an influence, but the comparison is inevitable. Her grandfather is Charlie Chaplin...
...says Brendon Carr, a lawyer with the law firm Hwang Mok Park in Seoul. In the past, explains Carr, the government was usually able to assert its views by strenuously voicing its opinions to newspapers and broadcasters by way of phone calls. But officials didn't know how to reach whomever was behind Minerva except by public announcements - which got the government nowhere. The resulting arrest of Park, Carr contends, is a classic case of bureaucrats with old habits struggling to adjust to the new Korea. "Korea is supposed to be a democratic success story and this case does...