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...researchers say all the talk about replacement tissue overlooks a more immediate benefit of stem cells: if you cloned them from someone with a genetic disorder, you could perform all kinds of experiments zeroing in on the DNA that is causing the problem. "If you had that," says Dr. Irv Weissman, director of Stanford's Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, "this would be a transforming technology as important as recombinant...
...DIED. IRV KUPCINET, 91, longtime Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist; in Chicago. From its debut in January 1943 to its final appearance just four days before his death, "Kup's Column"--often reported from his de facto office, a booth in the Pump Room at Chicago's Omni Ambassador East Hotel--chronicled, with a gentle, often adoring touch, the lives of Hollywood starlets, local politicos, tycoons and princes...
...better, we gave up on not being obsessively self-referential, we started drinking more, or we proved that you can fool some of the people most of the time, and that at Harvard, those people read Fifteen Minutes. I lean more to the first three—and Prof. Irv DeVore (I think we had three stories that featured him prominently, if not solely)—can’t ignore the possibility of the fourth, and wish sometimes that we had had another year to figure...
Irwin Jacobs, whose '80s buyout/bust-up raids on AMF, Kaiser Steel and Enron, among others, helped win him the nickname "Irv the Liquidator," has changed his style and gone back to work in this new climate. Last year he bought nearly 5% of the all-but-dead insurer Conseco--some 16 million shares, at about $7 each. Jacobs helped install former GE star Gary Wendt as CEO, and with Conseco now trading at $16, he has a paper profit of $144 million...
...been so successful. President George Bush, a dedicated family man, says when things got tense during crisis meetings in the Cabinet Room or the Oval Office, he could always glance out the windows over the South Lawn and see his grandchildren playing with his dogs or chief gardener Irv Williams digging in the flower beds or perhaps a staff member warming up on the horseshoe pits that Bush had had installed. "It made you realize what being President was all about," insists Bush...