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...Despite the retraction, Hwang insists he will provide proof of his work in 10 days. Hwang maintains that he did create the groundbreaking stem cell lines from patients, and that he even provided them at the time to six researchers who can vouch for their authenticity. "What I can say for sure is that we did create patient-specific stem cells and we have source technologies to repeat them from scratch," he said, referring to the stem cells he cultured for the first time from 11 patients with diseases...
Better to accept the idea that weight control is a multifront battle, with exercise, diet, understanding physicians and patients willing to try new things all part of the campaign. "This fight is won by persistence," says Cheskin, "not extreme firepower." Longtime veterans of the weight- loss wars can certainly vouch for that. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Dallas, Melissa August/Washington, Amanda Bower/ New York, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Dan Cray/ Los Angeles, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Laura Locke/San Francisco
...runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential industry as an essential reverie, and still the public may have a little difficulty recalling what's so lyrical about sweating. This time the memories were fresh and bright...
Pelle is willing to vouch...
Students can vouch for other manifestations of the discontents of some of our less neighborly neighbors, dispatching the 5-0 to bust parties (Saturday night, no less) even as they piggyback Harvard shuttles to the Square, feast on subsidies from the University endowment and gleefully watch their property values soar ever-upward as they indiscreetly drop the H-bomb in just about every local real estate listing...