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That discovery led, 35 years later, to James Thomson's isolation of the first human embryonic stem cells, at the University of Wisconsin in 1998. And that milestone in turn inspired researchers to think about directing these cellular blank slates to eventually replace cells that had been damaged or were depleted by disease. The key lay in finding just the right recipe of growth factors and nutrients to induce a stem cell to become a heart cell, a neuron, an insulin-making cell or something else. It would take decades, the researchers all knew, but new therapies were sure...
...appeared in the movie versions of such best sellers as A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, The Da Vinci Code and now Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, in which he plays a guy who can make fire with his hands. After all that culture, what does Paul Bettany turn to for entertainment...
...last year, Slumdog was suddenly without a U.S. distributor, and producer Christian Colson was told the film would be shelved. The parent company could have just sat on it--as Colson explains the industry logic, "It's better to let a film die than to have someone else turn it into a big hit"--but Warner Bros. "did the right thing" and let Colson show it to other indies. "Fortunately and extraordinarily," says Boyle, "and like almost everything else that's happened in this film, some mysterious stars and constellations aligned, and Fox Searchlight picked...
...action. Lerner and Keltner showed the corrosive effects of fear in a 2001 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Those who scored high on measures of fear, they found, were consistently less willing to take risks during games and more likely to predict their lives would turn out badly. The fearful are far more pessimistic, and it's a short journey from pessimism to withdrawal...
...were an adult woman, is both an icon and a kitsch object that has provoked feminist ire. In recent years, Barbie's sales have vacillated because of competing dolls and other childhood diversions like video games. (The maker of a popular rival, the Bratz doll, was just ordered to turn over its franchise to Mattel for infringing Barbie's copyright. Bad girl...