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...year-old Gough (in his fifth Burton film) as the Dodo Bird. Other stars appear in fanciful makeup. Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter matches his flaming red hair with red eyeliner, as if he'd been crying for years; he's a gentleman ghoul out of Johnny Weir's closet. Anne Hathaway, as the White Queen, is given crimson lips, platinum hair and, alas, no redeeming quirks. Bonham Carter (Burton's partner offscreen) sports blue eye shadow that could have been applied by windshield wipers. Iracebeth is as much a spoiled child as an evil monarch, pouting as she demands...
...Herbert Weir Smyth Classical Library
...funding stream, but also conduct embryonic research without current onerous restrictions on separating privately and publicly funded research. “You have to go through a lot of hoops in order to find the space to be able to do the work,” said Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine who works at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, where he said stem cell research must occur in a specific room renovated by non-federal dollars. Under current law, stem cell researchers must be exceedingly careful to ensure that nothing funded by the NIH contributes...
...technology is whether glucose measurements taken from the skin are as accurate as those taken from the blood. Others have asked whether this technology—which is still years away from being tested in humans—could be read through different skin pigments. But Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine at the Medical School’s Joslin Diabetes Center, remained cautiously optimistic. “Everyone is always coming up with new ideas but if this technology does what it says it does, I believe it would be a great tool for diabetes patients...
...handful of big lenders, amounting to well over $500 billion in liabilities, more than twice the country's GDP. The next step will be to ensure credit gets to Ireland's good-quality businesses over the next year or two, says Davy's White. On Grafton Street, Weir & Sons is among the luckier ones. It owns its black-and-gold-fronted store, so at least it doesn't have to worry about rent. And its prime location makes the shop popular with tourists. McDowell, for all his worries, remains bullish about Ireland's long-term prospects. "We're a very...