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...Stem cell research holds important potential to transform the understanding of human diseases and to illuminate possible treatments and cures,” Summers said. “We take seriously the ethical issues involved, which have been subject to careful review at Harvard and at other institutions, and believe that it is vitally important to carefully proceed with such research...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Romney Opposes Some Cell Research | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...late 1950s the iconic Modernist building?an unadorned box, made of glass and concrete or steel, typically perched upon an empty plaza?was springing up in every part of the developed world. It was a style that could produce individual works of great beauty, but in the aggregate could transform whole city centers into visual and spiritual dead zones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments Of Wit | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...from its couture, ready-to-wear and licensing businesses--with a loss of $13 million. Those in the designer's inner circle say Lacroix is bitter about the way LVMH'S chairman, Bernard Arnault, handled the sale, although Arnault shows little regret. "For 17 years we have worked to transform the company, and we have not been successful," he says. "It's time to focus on our core businesses and those brands like [Louis] Vuitton that have the most potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis on the Catwalk | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

...turns out he meant it. As Bush takes the oath of office and begins his second term this week, he is preparing to bet his presidential legacy on the very issue that Republicans have been doing their best to avoid for decades. Transforming Social Security is Bush's biggest domestic political gamble--audacious even for a President who prides himself on audaciousness--and one that could reshape far more than a single government program. Those who believe in it most deeply say it could redefine politics itself, putting Republican principles in a position to dominate for the next half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Really A Crisis? | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...Ukraine's presidential battle, Yushchenko has been buoyed by such shrewd use of street power - it has helped him emerge as a tough, decisive leader and a symbol of change. But now he has to play a subtler game if he is to make good on his promise to transform Ukraine from an outpost of Vladimir Putin's empire into a vibrant, prosperous part of Europe - a bridge between Russia and the West. He must establish a modus vivendi with a humiliated and angry Russian President and heal the divisions inside his own country, where the Russian speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is This Viktor? | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

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