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...here is very different than it appears. Perhaps things weren't that bad when Thain decided to take off to Vail, and then Lewis got ahold of Merrill's books and decided to make them look worse than they actually were. Too dastardly, you say? Maybe, but Lewis could use the illusion of a bigger loss to get money from the government and at the same time get rid of Thain. What's more, if Lewis hangs on, the latest loss makes 2009 earnings look better than they otherwise would. The only problem with this theory is that...
...that we use these tunnels to only bring in weapons. We're bringing in the ordinary stuff that keeps Gaza alive. If the Israelis opened the border crossings, we wouldn't have to be doing this," says Mohammed, a gap-toothed man in his 40s whose cap is emblazoned with a Koranic verse that he hopes will protect him from being buried alive when the Israeli fighter-bombers reappear in the skies over Gaza...
...trial, which will test a stem-cell-based treatment for spinal-cord injury, will begin later this summer and will use cells generated by Geron Corp. The approval marks the first time human stem cells, extracted and grown from embryos, will be transplanted into patients. Adult stem cells, which are present in many types of tissue, have been used in treatments for years - the most common being bone-marrow transplants in cancer care - but an embryonic study is a whole new thing. There's a good reason it's being greeted with so much excitement. (See the top 10 medical...
...does not regenerate - not in any significant way, at least. The Geron team began its work with what is known as a presidential stem-cell line - stem cells derived from discarded in vitro-fertilization embryos that already existed in 2001 when then President Bush decided to prohibit the use of federal funds to pursue human embryonic-stem-cell work. At the time, fewer than two dozen of these stem-cell lines were of good enough quality to use as a basis for human treatments...
Frustrated by years of wrangling with city business restrictions and what he considers infringements of his First Amendment rights, Kenneth A. O’Brien—owner of the used book stand on Mass. Ave between Linden and Holyoke Streets—said he plans to give away his entire inventory by April.O’Brien, who said he has spent most of his life on the streets, recently found a home in Cambridgeport with his partner and pets. But the 55-year-old said slow business has made paying the rent difficult, and now he faces possible...