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...containing stem cells from Johnson's own bone marrow or just blood serum - as part of the experiment, neither patient nor doctor knows which - and injects them directly into Johnson's heart through a catheter threaded into the main artery in his left thigh. Mathur hopes the $5.5 million, four-year study will help clarify whether stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow can repair a failing heart. There's much at stake in the outcome, and not just for the 300 chronic-heart-failure patients the trial will study or the two in 1,000 people...
...nail down his top target: free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez, fresh off a Series victory with Boston. "It's a family day, and you show up in a place where you're not supposed to be, just to talk to me," Martinez recalls. "That was more than enough." The four-year, $53 million-- contract offer helped...
...Proportion of students at four-year colleges in Virginia who fail to graduate within six years...
Harvard Business School may want to consider adding a case study in humility. Despite its four-year run as the top business school according to U.S. News and World Report, HBS ranked 14th for the second year in The Wall Street Journal. The Journal/Harris Interactive ranking is based on surveys of corporate recruiters. Recruiters were asked to rank business schools based on 21 attributes, including MBA students’ communication skills, teamwork orientation, and personal integrity. The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business nabbed the number one spot ahead of the Tuck School at Dartmouth, which...
...followed previous shuttles home, unnoticed and unscrutinized. But on a mission whose departure was beset by a fuel cell malfunction, a lightning strike on the launch pad and an approaching hurricane, the delay caused by the debris threatened to mar what has otherwise been a successful mission. After a four-year delay following the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts have finally resumed the construction of the International Space Station, installing 35,000 pounds of solar arrays and trusses. Fourteen more missions are needed to finish the job by 2010, when the shuttle will be retired...