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Snug -- and smug -- in their manicured garden, Singaporeans are unprepared for the jungle of the outside world. "They generally don't transplant well," says a Hong Kong-based executive of an international firm. "When faced with difficulties, they wilt...
Once he has staffed his New York Corporation, Schwenk said, his goals range from building a network of bullet trains across the U.S. to cloning human organs for transplant...
Throughout the months of scrutiny, Hillary took the criticism seriously enough to change, but not personally enough to wilt. Her critics contend that she underwent a personality transplant, allowing handlers to substitute the heart of Martha Stewart for her own. But she insists she just offered people a more complete picture of herself as mother, wife and friend, as well as attorney. Chelsea, whom she initially shielded from publicity, was gradually incorporated into the family's public picture postcard. The lifelong friends who swear she is the first person they would call from the police station, and not because...
...after decades of frustration and obscurity, the world of adhesion science is beginning to fulfill its promise. Researchers who look at many diseases as a failure of stickiness are designing both antisticky drugs and Super Glue-like drugs to treat a range of disorders, including heart disease, transplant rejection, stroke, arthritis, shock and cancer. Michael Gimbrone Jr., head of vascular research at Harvard Medical School, predicts "a whole new generation of therapeutic interventions." Several drugs are now being tried on humans, and early next year the first of them -- a gel that spurs wound healing -- will enter the final...
...Connor even talks up a little sermon at the end of the album about death, pain, crucifixion and the Holy Roman Empire. But the speech is reassuring--it's nice to know that she didn't have a complete personality transplant for this project. She's still subversive, trumpets, string section and all, which in its own way is quite an accomplishment...