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...Reading Edmund Wilson gives you the pleasure of accompanying a first-rate intellectual explorer as he embarks on a ceaseless quest to learn new things (and to tweak old friends: "I hope you are not one of those dreadful liberals who are rooting for the downfall of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy," he writes to the once radical and by then notoriously reactionary John Dos Passos). While his familial relations, highlighted here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part...
...have to tease out the stem cells from the blastocyst. Then you have to keep the stem cells alive, growing one generation after another while retaining their pluripotentiality (their ability to develop into all different kinds of cells). Then you have to take those stem cells and chemically tweak them in complex ways to make them grow into specialized tissue cells--say, neurons for a spinal-cord injury. Then you inject the neurons into the patient and get your cure...
...show?a collection of artifacts and images of 234 years of Eastern trade?has raised hackles among British Chinese activists. A small but well-aimed campaign even convinced the library to tweak the exhibit's panel text to better reflect the dark side of the Company's activities in China. "The Opium Wars marked a turning point in history," says campaign organizer Steve Lau, who runs the Web site www.britishbornchinese.co.uk. "Chinese refer to the next century as the 'hundred years of shame.'" The library seems blindsided by the controversy: it hadn't actually ignored the East India Company's opium...
...ratcheted up spending on research, a technique from her days in marketing at Procter & Gamble. It showed that women were not interested in watching romance or fantasy; they wanted to see themselves. "Woman escape by empathizing and feeling they are empathized with," says Black. Lifetime does tweak reality a bit, making sure women always triumph...
There is a tradition that at the end of every Sigma Chi party the brothers link hands, form a circle and sing and dance along to Don McLean’s “American Pie.” The young men tweak the lyrics slightly...