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Harvard, along with two other academic institutions, will take the lead in moving basic stem cell science towards clinical applications after receiving an $11.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week...
...serving as an 'orchestra' for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows ... Composer John Eaton says of Moog: 'He has brought electronic music out of the lab and into our lives.' The basic elements of Moog's machine are amplifiers, mixers, filters and voltage-controlled oscillators ... Because its voltage controls can precisely 'shape' tones as they are being produced, the Moog affords more spontaneous variations of sounds than other comparable synthesizers, and far more subtlety and musicality...
...cream—$2 billion more than it would cost to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's population. Moreover, Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion per year on pet food—$4 billion more than the additional amount needed annually to provide basic health and nutrition to the whole world...
...only what they really need our whole post-industrial economy would collapse. Moreover, aid from the “developed world” does not deal with the causes of African poverty and often creates new problems. Aid is needed for acute crises such as famines, AIDS, and the basic needs of the resulting orphans, but aid cannot deal with the economic and political roots of these crises...
Meet your quota for cinematic sex and death early next year, when Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction arrives in March. In it, SHARON STONE, with British co-star DAVID MORRISSEY, revisits the 1992 role that made her famous. "We like to think of this as Basic Instinct: The European Version," says Stone, 47. "We were very, very free." Um, how free? "Am I going to sit around and cross and uncross my legs again? Well, I guess everybody will have to pay their $10 to find out." But don't hold your breath for a trilogy. Says Stone: "It would...