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...very personal experience that brought Melton to stem cells, one that 17 years later he still finds difficult to discuss. When his son Sam was 6 months old, he became ill with what his parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton...
Gareth Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister who's now president of the International Crisis Group, has just published a book on R2P. If something proves difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it," he argues. Rather, you "reinforce and update" it. Initially, he says, that would mean sending more soldiers and money. Others wonder whether the U.N. is doing not too little but too much and is in danger of falling into the same trap as NATO in Afghanistan and the U.S. in Iraq: the more robust the mission, the harder it is to leave. Alex de Waal, program...
...workplace pioneer, Handler found the corporate road difficult. "It was not a glass ceiling in those days," she later reflected. "It was concrete." Yet, as author Gerber says, "Ruth's maverick spirit fueled her drive and her risk-taking in the early years of Mattel." The dream went sour for Handler, though. First, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then, at 62, she became a convicted felon after filing false financial reports. She was forced out of her company because of the scandal. Still, by the end of her life in 2002, she was celebrated by a new generation...
...with unemployment soaring toward 25-year highs, housing prices plunging and the nation's biggest banks facing insolvency, it is difficult not to wonder, Is Summers - is anyone, really - up to this herculean set of tasks at this impossible moment? And if the responsibility must fall largely on the shoulders of one man, does it have to be a guy in an ill-fitting suit who has a reputation for occasionally putting his foot in his mouth? The one who speaks in a disembodied patter while his nail-bitten fingers fiddle with his constant liquid sidekick, a can of Diet...
However, he also noted that in difficult economic times, there is a tendency for prospective students from modest backgrounds to attend college close to home...