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...thriving colony of healthy, smart mice that are free of brain disease? You can't take it for granted that every medical advance in mice will also benefit people." But the evidence started mounting. Over the past three years, researchers have discovered that brain cells regenerate in primate-like tree shrews, marmoset monkeys and rhesus monkeys, all of which are closer to us on the evolutionary scale than are mice (except in Kansas). The real payoff came late last year, when Fred Gage at the Salk Institute and his colleagues in Sweden reported that nerve cells are regenerated...
...called Dolly, few doubt that it will be feasible to clone a person by 2025--even the link between sex organs and reproduction will be broken. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body and grow a new person, as if you were a willow tree. And if it becomes possible to screen or genetically engineer embryos to "improve" them, then in-vitro fertilization and cloning may become the rule rather than the exception among those who can afford...
...value of hard work...I prefer action to talk, plainspeak to prevarication, Bartley's Burger Cottage to the Harvest. In the last six years, I founded a new city fund for the purchase of open space, established the city's first extended school day program, initiated a major tree and flower-planting program...
...each donor must fill out a tedious, two-page questionnaire with questions like: Hair color? Straight hair, curly or wavy? Eye color? Left-handed or right-handed? Jewish ancestry? College? Major? High school? Family illnesses or health issues related to incest? Then I filled out a Mendelian race tree, delineating the race of my grandparents on down. The last question on the sheet, I had to save for later; it asked whether any part of the donation was "lost" in the donor room. The bank did not follow up as to where, exactly, the donor might have misplaced his seed...
...biggest gifts under the Institute's tree are 34 newly funded fellowships, bringing the total to 56. Dunn, the acting dean of the Institute, estimates that next year's fellowship budget will be nearly four times larger than the current...