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...medical advantages are enormous: by cloning a patient?s own cells to create stem cells, then coaxing those stem cells to become new pancreatic, brain, spinal cord or heart tissue, for example, it?s conceivable that a victim of Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, diabetes, paralysis or heart disease could shore up damaged organs with new, healthy and-most important-rejection-proof replacements. (These are embryonic stem cells, which can turn into any tissue, not the less versatile stem cells that are already being used in various procedures, including an experimental heart-strengthening surgery performed with blood stem cells...
...common, there will be little measurable differentiation between the top 75 percent of every HBS class. For those lower down on the totem pole, the very signal that they got into HBS in the first place should carry sufficient weight.HBS should make grade release optional to shore up its reputation with employers and ensure that students give the school’s academics more than lip-service. Students should be able to keep, and to advertise, what they earn. The dire consequences predicted by those who oppose the move will ultimately be offset by the fundamentals of HBS?...
...Once I was a youth (yout') who spent his happiest summers on the Jersey shore, singing and listening to songs very like these. And now, as a Manhattan snob, I have a message for dear old Broadway: you need shows pretty much like this...
...awash in money," says a Democratic appropriations aide. Of the nearly $25 billion assigned to projects, checks totaling only about $6.2 billion have been cashed. As a result, a third supplemental-funding bill sent to Congress suggests taking back $2.3 billion in aid. Mayor Ray Nagin attempted to shore up support for the city's recovery before Congress last week, but he came home with little new. The comment of a G.O.P. aide was typical: "We want to see them helping themselves before they ask us for help...
...Guinn enters the final year of his busy two terms in office, his signature achievement remains the $830 million tax hike, a still controversial but realistic step to shore up the overstretched budget of the nation's fastest-growing state. "People say, 'Well, growth ought to pay for growth,' but I'm here to tell you, it doesn't," says Guinn, 69. When he was elected in 1998, little about Guinn's low-key personality or career background indicated he would try to be such a radical reformer or turn out to be such a polarizing figure. Having spent most...