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...recent breakthrough in stem cell research by seven Harvard affiliates could revolutionize treatment for diseases such as leukemia, for which the only existing cure is bone marrow transplant...
...Lennington Small served as Illinois governor in the 1920s, during which time he was charged with embezzling over $1 million in state funds. Small went on trial in 1922 - while still serving as governor - and despite substantial evidence, he was acquitted and went on to serve seven more years in office. After his trial, four of the jurors received state jobs. In 1965, four years after leaving office, William Stratton was indicted on charges related to misuse of campaign funds. While he was acquitted, his successor, Otto Kerner, wasn't so lucky. In 1962, during his first term as governor...
...Dick Simpson, a former local elected official who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, counts hundreds of politicians who have been sent to jail since 1971, including 30 aldermen and three of the past seven governors. "The whole mess has to be taken in context," he explains. But even by Chicago standards, Blagojevich seems especially kleptocratic, according to prosecutors. He tried to shake down highway contractors, job seekers and health-care administrators. He talked of holding up bill-signings in exchange for favors - and seemed not to understand when his targets balked at his demands. When...
...allow ice cubes, but narrow enough to sip without spillage (sports caps are available too), the Klean Kanteen 27-ounce stainless steel bottle kept ice water cold for a two-hour-plus flight. The Kanteen comes in four other sizes, including a 12-ounce "Sippy" for babies, and seven hues - in plain gray steel for us minimalists, and enameled exteriors in vivid, solid colors like Ocean Blue and Orange Sunset. Like the Sigg and the Camelbak, the Kanteen fits easily into a car's beverage holder (the 32-ounce Nalgene Tritan was too wide, but Nalgene does make narrower bottles...
...that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens in Pakistan...