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...they misread Disney. In his dark and brilliant Pinocchio and the hugely ambitious Fantasia, he would stretch technique to the limits. But the latter film, rich as it was in unforgettable animation, is also full of banalities. It exposed the fact that, as film historian David Thomson says, "his prettiness had no core or heart...
...General Electric Co. is eight years old, the product of the merger of the Edison General Electric Co.-Thomas Edison's firm and the Thomson-Houston Co. It is a forced marriage: Edison was an inventing genius but no match for J.P. Morgan in finance. Edison would quit soon after...
...Swaps GE/RCA Consumer Electronics (TVs and VCRs) with Thomson of France for CGR, a medical diagnostic imaging company. NBC launches cable-TV network CNBC...
...Wisconsin group, whose announcement appears in the current Science, went even farther. Its stem cells can evidently survive indefinitely. The researchers have also coaxed them to take the next step and differentiate into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. "It's an important first step," says developmental biologist James Thomson, who led the Wisconsin team. National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus pronounced the potential applications of the Wisconsin work "tremendous...
...pushing the research forward in a timely fashion requires the sort of support only the government can provide. "I'm convinced that there will be therapies based on these cells in my lifetime," says Wisconsin's Thomson. "But when that occurs will depend heavily on whether there is public involvement." Given the chances of overturning the funding ban in today's political climate, it is more likely to be later than earlier...