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That discovery led, 35 years later, to James Thomson's isolation of the first human embryonic stem cells, at the University of Wisconsin in 1998. And that milestone in turn inspired researchers to think about directing these cellular blank slates to eventually replace cells that had been damaged or were depleted by disease. The key lay in finding just the right recipe of growth factors and nutrients to induce a stem cell to become a heart cell, a neuron, an insulin-making cell or something else. It would take decades, the researchers all knew, but new therapies were sure...
...heard of Emergent BioSolutions. While broad indexes are off some 40% since Jan. 1, Emergent, which makes anthrax vaccines and is broadening into flu shots, is up 376%, to $24.11. Emergent is the top-returning stock in 2008 (through Dec. 12), according to an analysis done for TIME by Thomson Reuters Datastream. And Emergent isn't the only company that's been pleasing shareholders. This probably isn't going to make you feel any better about your brokerage account, but in the Russell 3,000, a broad-based index that captures 98% of equities traded in the U.S., 152 stocks...
...those companies and see if they will truly make those earnings." If the denominator of the equation falls short, then the P/E ratio doesn't look so hot after all. And there is reason to think projected earnings might be overstated. An ongoing survey of stock analysts by Thomson Reuters projected as of Nov. 21 that next year's earnings growth of S&P 500 companies would be 11.7%. Three weeks earlier, that projection...
...nosedive resulting at least in part from tanking commodity values. "Analysts feel that earnings weakness is spreading beyond the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, which includes industries like retailing and travel, into other sectors like energy and industrials," says John Butters, director of U.S. earnings research for Thomson Reuters. Among the few companies that may buck the negative trend in analyst expectations are airlines, which may benefit from falling fuel costs...
...read one of the 1,000 brief essays, look up, shake your head, and think "What the hell is this guy talking about?" For that, you should be grateful. All too many books about film regurgitate the same old pablum about the same old movies over and over again. Thomson, however, isn't afraid to tear down critical darlings (he hates Stanley Kubrick), isn't afraid of spoilers (there's a strong argument to be made for film criticism that can only be read after having seen the movie, not before), and reveals a cinematic knowledge of frightening depth. This...