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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...
Using a bicycle to get around has always been a bittersweet proposition in Southern California. Sure, it's eco-friendly, an excellent cardio workout and a pleasant alternative to snail's-pace public transportation, gridlocked freeways and king's-ransom gas prices. The drawback is finding a convenient, theft-proof parking spot. "When you can find a safe parking spot on the street, it's often 100 feet or more from your destination; and if there is secure bike parking, it's usually behind the building near the weeds next to a trash dumpster," says Russ Roca, a local photographer...
...Sinai.” This summer, Crane will give his own Sermon on the Mount. For the month of June, in addition to playing what he refers to as the “there guitar” (similar to how e-mail users call paper correspondence “snail mail”) in his own New York-based band, Crane will visit 15 U.S. cities as emcee of the first official “Aireoke” tour.ON THE ROAD AGAINIronically, the day-to-day life as a touring air guitarist is not entirely unlike that of a true...
...reality is not wholly unsettling. In fact, I laughed out loud for the first time in a museum while observing a piece by Fluxus artist Jock Reynolds entitled “Fluxsport: Great Race,” which is composed of only a plastic, red box holding four aligned snail shells.A piece by Fluxus goddess Yoko Ono demonstrates one of the principles most valued by both Beuys and the Fluxus artists: audience participation. Her piece entitled “A Box of Smile” (1971) is simply a black box with a mirror inside (how can you help...
...prosecutors have now said there is insufficient evidence to pursue charges against him.) Last July, Blair's friend and fund raiser Lord Michael Levy was also arrested and, like all other parties in the investigation, denies any wrongdoing. Since then, the inquiry has trudged along at a snail's pace, entwining more Downing Street employees and providing media sensations in thin news weeks. One of Blair's close associates says Downing Street had made contingency plans in case charges were leveled before last September's Labour Party conference, a sign of how long this has dragged on. Another member...