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...turned out as the investigation got under way, Nava himself had been found guilty of fabricating hate speech against himself while at prep school at Groton. That past record would help undo him. But it was not discovered until the hoax had roiled the entire Princeton campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tale of an Ivy-League Hoaxer | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

Twenty-five days. That's how long it took Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University to undo more than 30 years of exquisitely programmed biology packed into a woman's cheek cell - and just maybe change the world. In a procedure that some scientists thought could take decades to discover, Yamanaka tricked the cheek cell into acting like an embryonic stem cell - capable of dividing, developing and maturing into any of the body's more than 200 different cell types. And he wasn't alone: on the same day that he published his milestone in the journal Cell, James Thomson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Life | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

...remark condemned by the rest of his party as a monumental gaffe. That's precisely why Australians are uncertain of Rudd: is he the Steady Kevvie who's been on show this past year, or is he simply an old-fashioned lefty play-acting the only role that can undo John Howard's rule? Australians will be placing their bets on Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Rudd: Australia's New Prime Minister | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

...plus one for the house ... When there are two cats, there [could be] territorial issues. By having multiple boxes, you make it more pleasant for them and you lower the chance of litter box problems. Once the out-of-litter-box issue begins, it's a lot harder to undo it than not letting it happen in the first place. A cat [usually] pees around the house for a couple of reasons: a) it's an unneutered male, and it's spraying; b) the cat has a urinary tract infection. [That's] the most common reason for out-of-litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cat Wants You to Know | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...when a letter was sent by the House Transportation Committee's James Oberstar of Minnesota and Peter DeFazio of Oregon to all 50 Governors, expressing concern that a flood of local deals might put "parochial and private interests" ahead of an "integrated national transportation network"--and threatening to undo any deals found not to be in the public's interest. That's pointedly at odds with the Department of Transportation (dot), which, following the lead of the Bush Administration, has been a huge supporter of privatization and helped pave the way by letting some companies issue debt with the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Owns the Roads? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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