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...stem cell as a tumor's master print; as long as the original exists, copies can be made, and the disease can persist. But destroy the tumor at its source, and the abnormal cells can't survive. "This represents a conceptual revolution in cancer biology," says Dr. Robert Weinberg, a cancer-research pioneer at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass. "This is going to explain the way a wide variety of human cancers originate and the way they grow." Says Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a leukemia researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas: "If we are able...
...others apparently agree. Since the fall of 1984, scientific papers about superstrings have been streaming forth at an ever increasing rate that now averages 100 per month, and conferences centered around strings are becoming commonplace. Upon hearing of Schwarz and Green's latest breakthrough in string theory, says Steven Weinberg, a physicist at the University of Texas, "I dropped everything I was doing, including several books I was working on, and started learning everything I could about string theory." That task is far from trivial. "The mathematics," he concedes, "is very difficult...
...late '60s Weinberg and two other physicists, Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Abdus Salam of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, devised a model that integrated the weak and electromagnetic forces into a so-called electroweak force and predicted the characteristics of the W and Z particles. Their theory was experimentally confirmed when a team led by Carlo Rubbia discovered the W and Z particles at the CERN accelerator near Geneva. In 1979 physicists working with an accelerator in West Germany found experimental evidence for the existence of the gluon, the strong-force carrier. Most physicists believed...
...Christine Smith, Robert C. and Marion K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History...
French executive François-Henri Pinault is following in the footsteps of his tycoon papa François. This month Pinault Jr., 42, was appointed chairman of the $22 billion luxury-goods and retail empire PPR, founded by Pinault Sr. in 1963. He takes over from Serge Weinberg, who led PPR's diversification into luxury goods with the purchase of the Gucci group in 2001. Though Pinault is the scion of France's third wealthiest family--which owns a 42% controlling interest in PPR--he has also headed several PPR units. Instead of the nickname Daddy's Boy, he has earned...