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BENEFITS Strength training and other strenuous exercises tear down muscle fiber. During periods of rest, muscles repair and rebuild themselves, getting thicker and stronger. Exercise enables the heart to pump with greater ease during times of rest...
...Yarmouk, the air-conditioning works, and there are fewer flies. Harthiya also has more modern equipment. Working in more salubrious conditions, Dr. Raed Abbas, a private surgeon, was able to diagnose the full extent of the damage to Salah's arm. But the best he could do was repair one artery. It didn't look likely that the arm and hand would regain full function, he said, but it was all he could do. "Your friend," he said, "has already been luckier than anybody else in his position. At this point, all we can do is pray...
...grassy, 40-acre pasture at the end of the local airport's lone runway, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS)--the world's second largest aerospace firm, with headquarters in France and Germany--has built an 85,000-sq.-ft. helicopter assembly-and-repair facility under the inelegant name American Eurocopter. It is from this spanking-new building that EADS (2004 sales: $42 billion) is staging part of an aggressive push into the U.S. defense market...
...restrictions imposed on it by state and federal regulations. Currently, federal funding is provided for adult stem cell research—research on cells that, according to the National Institute of Health, have not yet adopted specialized roles within the body. In living humans, adult stem cells maintain and repair whatever tissue they are found in. While adult stem cells develop depending on the type of tissue they are found in, some scientists believe these adult stem cells can become cells of a different tissue. However, experiments aimed at this end have met with mixed success...
...course, the biggest winners are everyday people. Embryonic stem cells could someday be used to repair or completely regenerate damaged tissue and organs. They could be used to better test potential medications. And perhaps most exciting of all, embryonic stem cells may also hold the key to better treatments or even cures for Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, and heart disease. Scientists have only begun to understand the promise of stem cells. Massachusetts is taking the right step in backing these efforts wholeheartedly...