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...then, astonishingly, it did. In June 2006 a modest researcher from Japan made a startling announcement at the International Society for Stem Cell Research conference in Toronto. Shinya Yamanaka quietly described a study in which he took skin cells from a mouse and stirred them in with varying genetic cocktails made from a recipe list of 30 genes known to be important in development. When he hit on the right four genes and inserted them into the cells aboard retroviruses, he wiped the cells clean, reprogramming them and returning them to an embryo-like state without ever creating the embryo...
...Last year, compensation for HMC’s president and top five officials summed to $26.8 million for the fiscal year ending June 30—a 20 percent increase from the previous year, but a marked drop from that of five years earlier...
...letter calls for Harvard to withdraw the $21 million in bonuses paid to managers for the fiscal year ending June 30—even though the endowment posted returns of 8.6 percent during that period, beating the S&P 500’s 13.1 percent fall. In the four months since then, the endowment has decreased in value by 22 percent, while the S&P has declined by 24.6 percent...
...told my pastor when I die, I want him to be able to say at my funeral that I made a difference." - Agence France Presse, June...
...changing the grading system but will continue to oppose lowering the passing grade to 60. And he wants to maintain rigorous standards despite the three dozen e-mails he gets every day from Fairgrade supporters. He notes that in a neighboring district, 36% of students who graduated in June had a weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher. "I moved here from Minnesota, but I'd never been to Lake Wobegon," Gibson says, referring to the fictional town where all the children are above average. "Do we really want to have a reputation as an easy-A jurisdiction?" He adds...