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Alberto Beguiristain was once ready to risk his life to regain what he lost in Cuba. In 1960, a year after Fidel Castro took power, the revolution confiscated Beguiristain's large Spanish colonial house and two sugar mills in Sagua la Grande, east of Havana. Beguiristain recalls the "restitution" Castro offered: "He said I could leave the island alive." So in 1961, working for the CIA, Beguiristain ran the first arms shipments from Florida to anti-Castro insurgents for their disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. He was captured and says he would have been executed had he not escaped...
...healthy cell lines, there is still much to learn about how to coax them into turning into the desired kind of tissue. Parkinson's patients suffering from tremors caused by damaged nerves could benefit from replacement neurons, while diabetics who can't produce insulin could control their blood sugar with new pancreatic islet cells. But so far, no human ESCs have been differentiated reliably enough that they could be safely transplanted into people, although animal studies with human cells are under way. Not surprisingly, the groups closest to human trials are in the biotech industry, which operates without government funds...
...Houston. But Rusty had a space-shuttle design meeting that morning and was not in the mood to take John along. He told him to stay with Mommy. Rusty made certain Andrea had swallowed her morning dose of antidepressants, and as he left he saw her eating handfuls of Sugar Pops from...
...last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that just about any bet - even the risky ones such as sugar futures and Indian pharmaceutical companies - was bound to pay off handsomely. Since May, that optimism has been challenged. Today asset prices are being weighed down by two powerful forces: monetary policy and geopolitical angst. This [an error occurred while processing this directive] spells "risk reduction" for most investors...
...still not clear why diabetes and Alzheimer's should be related. One possibility is that the excess insulin the body churns out to try and control blood sugar inflames the blood vessels - which would also explain how diabetes leads to heart disease. But while it isn't yet exactly certain what's going on, the result is a kind of good news/bad news story. The bad news is that type 2 diabetes has been on a dramatic increase as Americans have gotten more obese over the past couple of decades - which means the Alzheimer's epidemic that's already expected...