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...that when an action hero warns his daughter about imminent danger - say, the potential perils of spending the summer in Paris with a classmate - Papa knows whereof he preacheth. Perhaps some angel has whispered to him that if the girls did just go safely museum-hopping, it wouldn't be a Luc Besson movie...
...switching one type of adult pancreatic cell, which does not produce insulin, to a type that does - without using stem cells at all. Why, he thought, do we need to erase a mature cell's entire genetic memory? If it's possible to reprogram cells back to the embryo, wouldn't it be more efficient in some cases to go back only part of the way and simply give them an extreme makeover? Using mouse cells, Melton did just that, creating the insulin-producing pancreatic cells known as islets. "The idea now is that you can view all cells...
...Henin, the U.S. team's French-born coach. "They can't be tasting or looking at something they don't know, because you'll lose them." Innovative Copenhagen chef René Redzepi, who served on the jury, was a little regretful about that comfort zone. "I was hoping it wouldn't be luxury item upon luxury item, that they would strip away the pretension," he says after tasting 12 plates of beef on the first day. "But that wasn't quite the case. Still, the fact that I'm here means the contest is changing...
...tough to make phrases like "accelerated knowledge transfer" and "interface message processor" visually interesting. The part about the Cuban Missile Crisis (illustrated with missile-shaped dots and arrows) is pretty cool because, well, it involves missiles. Apparently, the U.S. military developed a decentralized computer network so there wouldn't be a main hub for Russians to take down with a bomb. I never knew that before; now I can thank communism for creating the Internet...
...secluded Beijing military compound more than 700 miles away. Like many other parents across China today, Wang felt as though she had no choice. "Things have absolutely gone out of control," said Wang, 45, almost in tears. "My son just beat and bit me again this morning after I wouldn't let him touch the computer...