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...While newspapers and magazines cater to the casual princess watcher, some pilgrims want more solid mementos. Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain...
...cancer cells released by a tumor that is itself only dozens of cells large. Most of these migrating cells die during the journey. Others are more menacing--pioneers programmed to seed new growth in distant tissues. Either way, as epithelial cells--closely packed, multilayered cells of which most solid tumors are made--they are oddballs in their new fluid environment. "It's like splitting a deck of cards into red and black suits," says Dr. Daniel Hayes, director of the breast-cancer program at the University of Michigan, about separating these epithelial tumor cells from the blood. "Blood is made...
Even as employers retreat from providing expensive benefits like lifetime health coverage, they are finding that adoption assistance is relatively inexpensive--and yields disproportionately high rewards in employee loyalty, community goodwill and solid-gold p.r. Unlike maternity benefits, adoption assistance isn't covered by medical or disability insurance, meaning the entire cost must come directly from an employer's pocket. Still, only 0.5% of employees tap adoption benefits, but the assistance is so appreciated that workers gush about it to colleagues, spreading the warm, fuzzy corporate feelings. "Not to cheapen it, but it's cost-effective goodwill," says Sorensen...
...system, with each faculty and school retaining broad autonomy. The result has been an institution dominated by individual fiefdoms and parochial interests and that is averse to interdisciplinary endeavor. Faust must break down these entrenched barriers—a move that will likely anger many. Luckily, Faust has a solid model to build on with the nascent Harvard Stem Cell institute and the recent creation of the first inter-faculty department.Faust must also deal with a recalcitrant and old-fashioned Faculty of Arts and Sciences. To say that the Faculty is currently in a difficult position would be an understatement?...
...clinch Harvard’s 4-0 shutout. “It just gave us a lot of confidence,” Reese said. “I think it turned it around for us a little, but we weren’t able to generate any solid momentum through the rest of the season. We had a hard time overall, but I think that game was really great.” —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...