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After plodding along at a snail's pace over the past five years, stem-cell research-at least the scientific side of it-took a few bold steps forward Wednesday. As Congress gets set to vote on legislation that would expand federal funding for the field to include studies on excess IVF embryos, researchers in the U.S. and Japan announced exciting advances in their ability to turn back the clock on older, adult cells and get them to generate embryonic stem cells. The findings could expand the ways that doctors and patients eventually generate customized stem cells for treatments...
...Impasse? I was interested to read "The dying of the light," about how Mansour went from being Baghdad's glitziest neighborhood to one of its most dangerous [May 28]. It seems impossible for any side to win the war in Iraq. If the fighting were about land or money, maybe it would be easier for the U.N. or powerful nations to intervene and negotiate a settlement. But this war is about dominance and will. The Western countries involved have the technology and firepower, while the jihadists have the manpower and a willingness to die. I don't see how President...
...years, [there have been] a number of major investments in areas other than the curriculum,” said former Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. “It would not surprise if in the coming years, there will be some complementary...funding on the curricular side...
...whatever happens in Allston with construction for the Houses on the other side of the River, we are still going to need the River Houses,” Gross said. “No one is talking about abandoning Winthrop...
...Ever since, in a military and diplomatic sense, Korea's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been simplicity itself: if one side crosses it, we're at war. If everyone stays onside, the cease-fire continues. With a few nerve-rattling exceptions - in 1968 the North boarded and seized an American patrol boat, the U.S.S. Pueblo, that Washington insisted was in international waters , and in 1976, North Korea attacked and killed two American soldiers while they were trimming a tree in the DMZ - that cease-fire has held to this...