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...director of the Working Family Resource Center in St. Paul, moved her car from another garage to the new one. She pays $160 a month--"the same as before, but I'm receiving a lot more," she says. "It's nice to know these services are there, especially the starter service, with winter coming...
Grief cycled through their neighborhood on the south shore of Staten Island, an enclave of starter homes colonized several decades ago by fire fighters and policemen. Mike and his three siblings grew up there, and he never left. In the days and weeks after, when E.J. steeled herself by going to Mass, priests reversed bans on cell phones in church, just in case there was any good news. Mike's two young nephews, Christopher, 12, and Brandon, 7, attend St. Clare's School, a nearby Catholic day school connected to a church that has been burying firemen for months...
...that's really what this kind of cloning is about. "Our intention is not to clone human beings," insists ACT medical director Dr. Robert Lanza. Instead, the company's goal is to make embryonic stem cells, the so-called starter cells that can turn into any sort of body tissue, from brain to bone to blood. In theory, stem cells might be used to treat any disease in which cell death is a factor: diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, paralysis, stroke and more. And while stem cells can be harvested from aborted fetuses, that source is abhorrent to abortion...
...Once a starter at shooting guard as a freshman, Merchant has since come to fill the invaluable role of Harvard’s sixth man coming off the bench. It’s a quiet role, but one that Merchant fits perfectly, according to Prasse-Freeman—who, along with forward Sam Winter, lives with Merchant in Quincy House. Merchant, he says, is as selfless as anyone he’s ever...
Merchant began his career as a starter at shooting guard. Harvey was not with the team then, and Gellert was out with a separated shoulder. Times have changed since that rookie season, but Merchant has no regrets about the way his responsibilities have shifted...