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...Enter Ali G, a tracksuit-wearing "hip-hop journalist" and the alter ego of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen. Da Ali G Show (HBO, Friday nights, 12:30 a.m. E.T.) is a little like This Is Spinal Tap, if the doltish rockers were asking the questions. In one of a series of artfully staged (but real) newsmaker interviews, Ali asks former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros BoutrosGhali: "Which is the funniest language? It's French, innit?" When he asks a panel of religious leaders, "Isn't God just an overhyped David Blaine?" you swear one of the panelists, a Dick Cheney...
...miraculously regain mobility after an implantation of neural stem cells. But Gearhart emphasized that lab animals are not humans and predicted that it would take from seven to ten years before such treatments would be available for treatment of such conditions as stroke damage, Parkinson?s disease and spinal chord injury. ?It will take at least that long to get over the safety issues,? he said...
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...There is a lot more research on spinal-cord injury today than 10 or 15 years ago," says Dr. Fred Roisen of the University of Louisville, one of the researchers involved in the nasal-stem-cell studies. "The future holds a lot of promise." It's worth remembering, however, that progress on any of these fronts will come slowly and, like Reeve's physical therapy, one step at a time. --By Alice Park