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HEARTWARMING A team of scientists armed with a high-powered microscope and new investigative techniques has challenged decades of medical dogma by reporting that the heart can, in fact, regenerate new muscle cells after a heart attack. Too few cells are created to repair all the damage, however, and any new therapies tapping into this regenerative ability are many years away...
...could have regular power and water again. They were less pleased when whole suburbs of Nairobi lost their phone lines for a month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days to get updates on the progress of their repair work on my main line. After a couple of weeks, the manager in charge of my suburb took to blaming the weather for the slow progress. You can't just blame the weather, I said. "You're right," he said. "It's also incompetence. Massive incompetence." Now that's honesty...
...Rose Garden ceremony Monday, the president acknowledged America's responsibility as a polluter and promised to study the issue and create incentives for new technologies to combat it. It was a game effort to remedy a blotchy image, but the question for the White House is whether the repair job will help rectify his environmental image back or whether it will exacerbate the problem by offering too little...
...That's fine with the White House. While image repair is a top priority there is no inclination to do anything rash that would hurt the economy. European whining, protest in the streets, and complaints from bureaucrats have only so much effect on the powerful voices in the White House. The real view is that Europeans are being unrealistic and trying to blame the United States for backing out of the Kyoto agreement when they had their own problems with it. Solving global climate change, says the White House, cannot be done in a day. Issues must be weighed...
...excrement. Harried staffers often failed to put on his glasses or hearing aid or dentures, so he spent hours in bed cut off from the world. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the central heating was turned off for repairs and his own temperature plummeted alarmingly. His children were told the hospital's warming suit was already in use, so Brunton was simply wrapped in an insulating blanket and left to get warmer on his own - which he did. Later they thought he was hallucinating when he said...