Word: susan
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...donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs an AIDS clinic in South Africa, will...
...Let’s Go is a perfect complement to our existing list of travel clients,” said PGW President Susan Reich in a press release. “It is one of a handful of series in the travel category with immediate brand recognition...
...dream would be a picture of them decorating their bedrooms or having a pajama party," says OK! Magazine editor in chief Susan Toepfer, who adds that she'll settle for photos of Christmas and Easter celebrations. "The Obamas have made it clear they want to be open with the public. They're going to become the national family." (See pictures of U.S. Presidents and their children...
...patients with injury to the thoracic region, high in the spinal cord between the third and 10th vertebrae. Doctors will be trained to inject the cell treatment at specific locations, where the cells will remain to do their nerve-nurturing work. "I think it's incredibly exciting," says Dr. Susan Fisher, a stem-cell scientist and a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at University of California, San Francisco. "This really provides a blueprint for how to do these sorts of trials. It really proves the principle that these sorts of human embryonic-stem-cell therapies can survive...
...abound. For instance, what to do about detainees who confessed under torture? One case sure to be complicated is that of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly helped plan the 9/11 attacks - he is sometimes described as the "20th hijacker." Bush Administration officials now admit that he was tortured, and Susan Crawford, the retired judge who is the convening authority of the military commissions, has refused to refer al-Qahtani's case to prosecutors...