Word: celle
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Lowell, Mather and Cabot Houses have already released statements by e-mail and on their Web sites asking students to turn off cell phones in dining halls and classrooms...
...cost walkie-talkies of old, which transmitted only 100 yds. or so, were basically noisy toys. The latest two-way radios, by contrast, are feature-packed workhorses with a range of two miles or more. With no usage fees, they have become viable alternatives to cell phones...
...story on the National Institutes of Health's new guidelines on human stem-cell research contained two errors [HEALTH, Sept. 4]. Under the guidelines, government-funded scientists will not be allowed to use early-stage embryos. They will be able to use material provided by private companies derived from embryos left over from in-vitro fertilizations. Also, contrary to what we said, there is no ban on using federal funds for fetal-tissue research...
SURVIVORS An experimental bone-marrow transplant may help treat kidney cancer, a disease so virulent that once it spreads, it kills half its victims within a year. Stem cells--the primordial cells that give rise to new cell lines--are collected from bone marrow. Once transplanted, they generate a new immune system, one that's capable of fighting off the cancer. The technique has been tried on only 19 patients, all terminally ill, but the results are promising. Although 10 died, two from the treatment itself, the others saw their malignancy shrink or completely disappear...
When the Justice Department was criticized for its handling of the Lee case, Assistant U.S. Attorney George Stamboulidis said it was Lee who "held the keys to his jail cell." But in cases like these, it's the prosecution that's in charge of the locks...