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...generally pay for itself many times over. Close to two decades past deadline and now carrying a projected $100 billion price tag, it has not returned a lick of good science - nor is it likely to. Meantime, it's diverting billions from NASA's budget that could better be spent on the agency's brilliantly successful unmanned space program, as well as its promising efforts to return astronauts to the moon and eventually explore Mars...
...Fortunately, Yamanaka had one student who was brave-or at least, knew when to say yes to his boss. Takahashi spent endless hours screening the candidate genes. "Perhaps this is not something Kyoto University should know, but I worked 365 days a year," Takahashi laughs. Using retroviruses to deliver the genes into mouse skin cells, Yamanaka and Takahashi eventually narrowed the number down to four active genes that triggered the transformation...
...wellness program, which has since helped him quit smoking, change his diet and start walking four miles every day. His two daughters quit smoking too. Thanks to success stories like McGee's, Worthington saved $2.5 million in claims over the past two years, more than double what it has spent on the program, says Kay Cooke, director of benefits. That makes McGee proud: "We're a profit-sharing company, so I figure every dollar we save is a dollar in my pocket one way or another...
...grievances, the eternal search for a comma that will appease both sides. For that reason alone, it would be wonderful to have a President with lots of stamps in his or her passport or a President who speaks a foreign language fluently or has lived overseas or has spent time in the military or in negotiations with foreign leaders. It was possible for George W. Bush to run for President in 2000 without knowing the name of the President of Pakistan; the next President will have to know the history, politics and tribal leaders of Waziristan, the Pakistani province that...
...competence, down from 40% in 1992. More than a quarter (27%) of high school seniors are functionally illiterate. The results are even worse in math. Simply throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer. On K-12 we are spending more than double the amount we spent 30 years ago, and the test results are about the same...