Word: stemming
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...police department’s report came in response to an order from the City Council in February for an update on measures being taken to stem a string of indecent assaults on and around the Harvard campus...
...says that Harvard students, whom he describes as the next generation of policy-makers and top corporate officials, should “understand the meaning and root of stem cell research...to make informed and ethical decisions...
...centerpiece of his lifelong obsession with Israel's security. "We need to get out of Gaza, not to be responsible anymore for what happens there," he says. In his reading, there's no chance of a negotiated peace with the Palestinians so long as Arafat leads them. So, to stem the tide of blood in the meantime, Sharon is preparing to pull Israeli forces and settlers behind his West Bank security barrier and wait for the Palestinian political map to change. The trouble is, to prove he is not pulling out because of pressure from militant Palestinian groups like Hamas...
...this country. As John Kennedy said very clearly, I will be a President who happens to be Catholic, not a Catholic President." Still, when Kennedy ran for President in 1960, a candidate could go through an entire campaign without ever having to declare his position on abortion--much less stem cells, cloning or gay marriage. It was before Roe v. Wade, bioethics, school vouchers, gay rights and a host of other social issues became the ideological fault lines that divide the two political parties and also divide some Catholics from their church...
...study that will cause the hearts of bald men everywhere to skip a beat, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report they have coaxed stem cells to grow new hair, at least in mice. The team hopes to do the same for human scalps but cautions that stem-cell treatments for hair loss--hold on to your hats--are at least a decade away...