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...going to use much more useful stem-cell lines," says Simon Best, vice chairman of the Bioindustry Association in the U.K. and chairman of the U.S. Biotechnology Industry Organization's Bioethics Committee. While U.S. companies enjoyed an early lead in stem-cell research and the U.S. can clearly outstrip smaller countries in government and private funding, American scientists now find themselves being left behind. "We have already lost the momentum, and it is just going to get worse," said Stanford University professor Irving Weissman, founder of three U.S. stem-cell companies and chairman of a National Academy of Sciences panel...
Meanwhile, college costs are going up 6% a year; health-care costs 8%. Both far outstrip the expected 3% annual inflation rate over the next few years, and are taking a toll on boomers with college-age kids and dependent parents. What can they do? William Stern, 48, an optometrist in Shawano, Wis., has invested aggressively in stocks for 23 years. He recently shifted 20% of his assets to bonds. "I'm trying to reduce the risk in my portfolio," he says. He has also beefed up his savings rate, tucking away more than his goal of 20% of income...
...will not even mention the other eight Core areas—all of which outstrip even the extensive offerings of the three areas I’ve just described...
...seven-year-old. But he's "special" in the best sense--a generous, industrious soul, especially when he's with his daughter Lucy (total charmer Dakota Fanning). Lucy is a sweet, bright kid, devoted to her hampered dad, but now that she is 7, she has started to outstrip Sam in reading and social skills. When the state tries to take her from Sam, he hooks up with a frazzled lawyer (Pfeiffer, playing a more harried Ally McBeal) to win the child back...
According to Rogers, who has studied natural resources in India and elsewhere, India's water table is falling and some studies have suggested demand for water will far outstrip supply within 20 years...