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...conceived the drama as "Top Gun meets A Few Good Men" and sold it to NBC, where it debuted in 1995. But in 1995-96, its first season on the network of Seinfeldian cool, JAG finished 77th in the ratings. nbc wanted more shootouts and hardware; Bellisario wanted to retain the legal drama. The show was headed for a dishonorable discharge when Moonves, seeing a good fit for his network's older audience, snapped it up, rolling gunslinging action and courtroom drama into one star-spangled package...
Many ordinary Russians retain their deep ambivalence toward the U.S. A few days after Sept. 11, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, a prominent polling organization, asked Russians whether they agreed with the statement that the U.S. had "got its just deserts"; 35% agreed. The next week the pollsters repeated their question - 50% now supported the statement...
However, the experiments described in the Journal of Regenerative Medicine were not intended to result in the creation of a child. Rather, they were aimed at realizing the medical potential of research in embryonic stem cells. These cells, found in week-old embryos, have not yet specialized and retain the ability to develop into any type of tissue found in the body. Stem cell-based treatments hold out the hope of reversing progressive nervous disorders, such as Alzheimer’s or multiple sclerosis, and of replacing the weakened insulin-producing cells that cause diabetes. A September report...
...front page of pitchbooks that no one reads anyways—to a Third World country with strong English and typing skills, like Cambodia or India. Trading desks can be replaced by networks of day traders working from home. Ideally, once these firms have restructured, they will retain nothing but a HR department and an outgoing, charismatic, racially diverse skeleton staff to recruit us outgoing, charismatic and racially diverse students...
...hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year's trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The fashion center for burqas -the Paris, if you will, of Afghanistan - is Herat. Afghan women rave about the delicacy of its embroidery, the exquisite pleating which gives the burqa a shimmering, watery feel but which takes hours to iron...