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...spending more time in America later this year-he has accepted a post as a visiting scientist at the J. David Gladstone Institute in San Francisco. But his overseas travels will be limited. Yamanaka says he'll remain based in Japan because he doesn't want to pull his children out of high school. He has also been a father figure to younger colleagues-one that isn't afraid to share the credit. "He's a guiding teacher," says Kazutoshi Takahashi, an assistant professor at Kyoto and Yamanaka's first student. "Everyone in the lab gets the opportunity to have...
With his control of Gaza crumbling, Abbas' only weapon is to pull out of the "unity" government with Hamas, saddling the Islamic militants with tighter international sanctions. It's a desperate tactic, but Hamas officials say they are in no mood to negotiate with Abbas. Gaza locals say Hamas has prepared a list of Fatah leaders to either arrest or execute, a move that would make a diplomatic compromise that much less likely...
Rogen and Carell are two examples of underknown talents with ordinary looks who were given lead roles in movies and instantly proved their pull as comedy stars; they could make the audience fall in laugh with them. Just now, they are two of a dozen or so movie comics who are giving the genre a clout it hasn't seen for decades--maybe since the great silent era of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and their jolly colleagues aren't of Chaplin's artistic stature, but they are something...
...Imagine a family table that can pull up the layout of every board game ever made. "I think we're just scratching the surface," says Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, realizing a second too late that he's making a pun. "If you just go through any business, you can find applications." Milan will start showing up in public this fall; the first units will be information kiosks in the Harrah's family of casinos...
...Reprisal killings against civilians were part of the Germans' brutal efforts to quell armed dissent in the region. The report didn't prove any direct personal responsibility of Waldheim, who was serving as a quartermaster's deputy, but its author, Neal Sher, argued that "one doesn't have to pull the trigger to be implemented in crimes." Waldheim was having none of that: "unfounded allegations and accusations, with no proof given," he told...