Word: stemness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...them. White House aides going home after dark have had to bang on their briefcases and bags to scare the beasts away. The 165 traps that have been strategically positioned around the mansion grounds by the White House gardener -- and baited with environmentally sound poison -- have done little to stem the invasion. Mrs. Clinton has taken over health care; is this a job for Socks...
...disease. "That's a damning indictment of our system," Frieden told TIME. "We're failing to get people tested during the time that they are without symptoms and during the time when they may be infecting other people." The city has high hopes the testing plan will help stem that tide. But it'll have better luck if it can wrangle full support from community groups like CitiWide, whose deep roots in the borough provide access to the at-risk population the plan hopes to reach. Its supporters are hopeful, but realistic. "Changing paradigms is hard," Futterman says, "and this...
...freeze since the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Still, in the case of TNK-BP, it's hard to make out a government agenda. The squabble over work permits was at least partially resolved once it became public, and suspicions of tax evasion stem from the years prior to BP's involvement. Resolving the conflict, Medvedev has said, is up to the shareholders...
...what you are about to read as Madiba's Rules (Madiba, his clan name, is what everyone close to him calls him), and they are cobbled together from our conversations old and new and from observing him up close and from afar. They are mostly practical. Many of them stem directly from his personal experience. All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place...
...called the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education. Every week, he travels to towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank trying to enlighten his fellow Palestinians. Says Mahameed, "Even with the militants, when I explain to them that Israel's brutal policies in the Palestinian territories stem from the Holocaust, they tell me 'You're bringing us an atomic bomb. We need to think about this...