Word: experimental
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"America is a democratic experiment often unwilling to acknowledge its dark side," said West, who is Alphonse Fletcher Jr.University Professor of African-American Studies. "The future depends on our ability to candidly confront social problems of poverty and low quality of life."
MY HEAD, YOUR ARM Why would anyone take hair from a man's head and grow it on a woman's arm? To advance science--and maybe a new treatment for baldness. In a novel experiment, researchers removed patches of a man's scalp--hair, roots and follicles--and transplanted...
By the end of the film, we're ready for the traditional, Austenian happy ending. Rozema has made us want it by putting us through a more turbid, uninhibited version of what is coldly reserved from the novel. Rozema has said that she thinks of Fanny Price as a "test...
When Harvard made the decision to outsource security, it took a risk. An outside organization would handle hiring and firing guards, providing their pay and benefits schedules and generally remove responsibility for the quality of individual guards from Harvard's plate. In exchange, Harvard would face mostly unfamiliar guards who...
An experiment at Cornell's Weill Medical College, though, may hint at a real baldness cure. The key is a gene known as SHH. In embryos SHH controls brain development, but in mature animals--including humans--it governs natural on-off cycles of hair growth. And sure enough, when scientists...