Word: stemming
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...beach chairs, wiggling toes in the white sand while debating the wisdom of getting into a centrifuge to test vomit potential at the high G-forces needed to soar into space. That's when the merry prankster himself, Sir Richard--master of Virgin Air, Virgin Records, Virgin stem cells, Virgin everything if he had his way--shows up and starts talking about sex in space. A vision of weightless gymnastics at zero G and intricate human docking maneuvers dances briefly in everyone's head. "Of course, if you want to get naked, someone might find out," warns Sir Richard, displaying...
...watches as she is worn down to a nub by the struggle between right and wrong. The director also makes the score a key element, elevating it from mere wallpaper to a vehicle of communication between the audience and the film. The music remains soft, allowing the volume to stem from the characters, each screaming in their moral conflicts. Critics have been hypnotized by the melody of the drama—the film won Best Picture, Best Screenwriter, and Best Actor at the European Film Academy Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
While no one can ever really know the true motives of the evildoers who continue to deny Sherley tenure, we can speculate on the reasons. Perhaps, for example, it was because he refuses to join in “mainstream” research. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, will not work with anything but adult stem cells while most of his colleagues in the field believe the focus should be on fetal stem cells. Could this have been an issue? Of course not, it was probably all because Sherley is black. (Never mind the fact that Phillip L. Clay, MIT?...
...demobilized as many as 30,000 troops in the past three years, are currently being prosecuted for their crimes under a controversial law that grants them reduced prison sentences of up to eight years for confessing to crimes. Few of the charges that have been filed against the lawmakers stem from those paramilitary hearings, but analysts expect more politicians to be implicated when the militia leaders begin recounting their crimes. Despite persistent allegations that Uribe himself has ties to paramilitaries, no credible evidence has ever been presented. However, opposition Senator Gustavo Petro has vowed to schedule hearings into the spread...
...right most women never have to exercise. On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice, Mitt Romney used to be, and John McCain's pro-life record doesn't keep social conservatives from viewing him with some suspicion. Other issues, whether war and peace or gay marriage and stem cells, may be the prime motivators in this election; and in the meantime, pro-choice Democrats are back in control of Congress. "The power change in Washington highlights the increasingly strategic role pregnancy centers play in the pro-life movement," says Kurt Entsminger, president of Care Net, the largest pregnancy...