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Corporate America, for a start, may praise family life but does virtually nothing to ease it. Managers still take male workers aside and warn them not to take a paternity leave if they want to be taken seriously. On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper. Teachers call parent conferences but only talk to the mothers. When father arrives at the doctor's office with...
...patient's own adult cells to transform into human embryonic stem cells and then into heart, nerve or any other kind of tissue. That could give doctors the ability to repair or replace cells destroyed by disease or injury, without fear of immune-system rejection. Experts were quick to warn that significant hurdles remained before the technique might ever be used in people, but the sheer simplicity of Yamanaka's discovery-he found just four genes were required to reprogram the mouse skin cells-was cause for elation. "This is great science," says Alan Trounson, professor for stem-cell sciences...
...installation address on Oct. 12 in Tercentenary Theatre, Faust is expected to lay out more concrete plans. But former university presidents warn that Faust should articulate her initial vision in broad strokes...
...kids, and how should I couch such a conversation? I have two daughters, ages 10 and 5, and they interact with adults of all sorts-coaches, teachers, friends, relatives and, in Asia, household help. I want to prolong the innocence with which my children view the world, yet warn them of its dangers. This is tricky, particularly in Asia, where children are welcomed and cherished with a delight that is as genuine as it is-from a Western perspective at least-threatening. Malay shopkeepers call children baby-jaan, or "life," and press free candy into their palms. Indian bus drivers...
...streets was precisely to protest the government's forcing RCTV off the airwaves, at midnight Sunday, by refusing to renew its broadcast license. The country's oldest channel had been replaced by state-run TVes, which showed cartoons and old movies during the protests. Critics of President Hugo Chavez warn that when the smoke clears, the television landscape will be largely bereft of independent voices willing to criticize the government...