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...just what happens when those fresh faces start suing their record labels or sneaking the bag boy from the Piggly Wiggly on the tour bus. And country hasn't had a fresh young thing in a couple of years. Then in walks Georgia peach (from Tipton) singer-songwriter CYNDI THOMSON, 24. Her first CD, My World, is the best-selling debut album since teen belter LeAnn Rimes' Blue. Thomson's discovery was a little bit country: she left dog Charlie behind to go to Nashville, and her parents sold the car to pay her way. Of course her looks haven...
...that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away on his magic carpet of a voice into adventure, romance and flat-out nonsense. Radio was his party...
...most famous characterization, The Shadow, asking, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" and laughing with a maniacal sonorousness that winked at the listeners or frightened them. Welles loved radio; it loved him back, whatever the cost, whoever he was playing that week. As Thomson notes, "radio became the staple of Welles' income and an incentive to a manic versatility...
What the President didn't mention: to make all this happen, the University of Wisconsin would have to agree. It was at Wisconsin that biologist James Thomson first isolated embryonic stem cells in 1998. And it is at the affiliated, nonprofit Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that the patent governing such cells--whether they were isolated at Wisconsin or not--resides. Anyone who wants to work with them may well have to sign an agreement with WiCell Research Institute, which was set up to distribute WARF's stem cells...
Despite fears expressed by many scientists that they would have to pay dearly to work on stem cells, officials at WARF are echoing Freire's sentiments. The foundation has licensed the Menlo Park, Calif., biotech firm Geron to commercialize six specific cell types derived from Thomson's five primary stem-cell lines--though it is fighting the company's attempt to extend that license to 12 more derived types...