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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have scientists managed to do all this without those protean stem cells? Part of the answer is smart engineering. Using materials such as polymers with pores no wider than a toothbrush bristle, researchers have learned to sculpt scaffolds in shapes into which cells can settle. The other part of the answer is just plain cell biology. Scientists have discovered that they don't have to teach old cells new tricks; given the right framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve. "I'm a great believer in the cells. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Build a Body Part | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...also just incredibly smart," Estrada added...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Wins USA Today Academic Honors | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...Cambridge who are attracted to the Kong's low-key atmosphere. Paul describes one of his favorites: "Well, there's Marc, the real little guy who always hangs out behind the Lethal Enforcer machine. I think he did too much acid back in the '60s. Supposedly he was really smart, but I guess he fried his brain." As far as Paul is concerned, freaks of nature will always be welcome at the Kong. He lays out his philosophy: "As far as I'm concerned, if you don't cause trouble, come and enjoy yourself, even if you're weird. Your...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: THE HONG KONG AN ORAL HISTORY | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Horowitz said he realized the Left's answer would be that Winfrey is "a token." However, Horowitz countered, "Oprah Winfrey isn't a token--Cornel West is a token. He's an empty intellectual suit, he's not that smart, and he got his place because of the scramble for black faces in the university by the liberal administration...

Author: By Steven E. Stryer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Horowitz Condemns Left, Universities | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...show. The clowns here have existential dilemmas, though: each is uniquely unable to fathom his or her own strangeness. So each tries to stumble through it by mumbling nonsense, head-butting a ham or licking the pate of every bald man in the audience. Physical comedy is rarely this smart, and almost never this funny. Trained actors, the members of New Bozena succeed in making their freakish characters sympathetic. Bring an open mind and a toupee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Bozena | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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