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...George Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Thérese Desqueyroux, Judex), has an ingrained insight into the character that not only presents Hélene in her 70s but suggests the kind of mother she must have been. There's also a taut sensuality that hints at a family secret not revealed until after she dies...
...After three years of endless experiments on mouse cells, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered the three transcription factors out of a possible 1,100 that may provide the key to unlocking the secret to growing replacement tissues—a longtime goal of regenerative medicine...
Artist Yi Zhou's latest sculpture has all the trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...political analyst close to the government said that al-Maliki finds himself bridging the divide between the U.S. and Iran. "When you are the bridge between major parties, every side wants you closer to it," said the analyst. "It's part of the secret war between the U.S. and Iran; Maliki's one of the tools they...
...flee to West Germany. Later, he himself served a 17-month prison sentence for attempting to escape the GDR. Still, he's nostalgic for the old East, which is why he's a regular at "Zur Firma," an East Berlin pub whose theme derives from the GDR's feared secret police organization, the Stasi. "I feel snug in this place," says Hans-Holger. "Ostalgia is better than what we have today...