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...find in the body; they are difficult to grow; and it's unclear how versatile they will be. Embryonic stem cells are far from a proven technology--developing them into real therapies will require armies of scientists and perhaps many years of work--but they don't have those basic drawbacks...
...basic facts of the "Grubman event," as a local termed it, do not make good sense. Surely Grubman, 30, one of the latest in a flashy new breed of New York public relations experts, who has represented the likes of Sean Combs, Britney Spears and America Online, was not so professionally suicidal as to intentionally mow down well-heeled patrons at the Conscience Point Inn, a nightclub she represents. But if Grubman did not mean to hurt anyone, if she just failed to wrestle the powerful Mercedes-Benz SUV into compliance (as her lawyers contend), then how to explain...
...advantages of walking upright were somehow so great that the behavior endured through thousands of generations. Indeed, the anatomy of our ancestors underwent all sorts of basic changes to accommodate this new way of moving. Many of the changes help the body stay balanced by stabilizing the weight-bearing leg and keeping the upper torso centered over the feet. Lovejoy, who studies the anatomy and biomechanics of locomotion, thinks the changes may have improved coordination as well. "To walk upright in a habitual way, you have to do so in synchrony," he says. "If the ligaments and muscles...
...court's three women who dissented, focusing on larger, reproductive issues. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley regretted that "for the first time in our state's history," the court had "allowed the birth of a child to carry criminal sanctions." In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court declared procreation a basic human right in 1942. It reaffirmed it in 1978 by overturning a Wisconsin law forbidding child-support-delinquent citizens to marry if they could not show that their children could be kept off welfare. Similarly, activists like the A.C.L.U.'s Catherine Weiss say Oakley's sentence "runs dangerously close to having...
...head of the Shepherd's Hospice for HIV-positive patients consults more than 100 new HIV patients a month. But because the tiny clinic has only two beds, he feels it is unfair to admit anyone because it will mean turning away dozens more. So he gives outpatients basic drugs, counsels them and slowly works on the hospice building, laying a few extra rows of bricks every time he gets a donation. "We've been through one war," he says, pausing to point out a hospice window shattered by fighting two years ago. "Now we have to start fighting another...