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...this out of the way immediately: Of the six people who play versions of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the only one who looks the least bit like him is? yes, Cate Blanchett. It's something about the frizzy hair and the cheekbones. The one who looks the least like him is a young black kid, Marcus Carl Franklin, who rides the rails and wanders the back country and finally pays the legendary visit to Woody Guthrie as he lies dying in a hospital. Everyone else - among them Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale - just look pretty...
...Yes, the truth is inconvenient. But I'm trying. I am attempting to reverse my eco-unconsciousness, if only to assuage the twitchy sensation in my cells. I have installed the low-energy lights I bought at Home Depot, even though they make my living room look like a gas-station toilet. I look for products at the grocery store with the green recycling thingy on the package and then place my purchases in reusable burlap bags. I potty-trained my kid. When I die, I plan to be placed au naturel in a shallow hole and become fertilizer...
...answer is a resounding yes, as evidenced by two groundbreaking papers published on Tuesday. In the journal Cell, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University reports success in turning back the clock on cheek cells from a middle-aged woman, while James Thomson of University of Wisconsin, the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells, achieved the same feat with foreskin cells from a newborn baby. The achievements completely reset the boundaries of the stem cell debate, because both groups generated cells that looked and acted like embryonic stem cells, but without the need for eggs, embryos or ethical quandaries about where...
...decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Still, last year Ms. promised to send the names of these women of 2006 to Washington to remind lawmakers of the importance of the movement—“to make politicians face their neighbors, influential movers and shakers, and yes, their family members.”Even operating within a pro-choice view, there is no need for abortion to be excessively public. Not sharing your most recent abortion with your barista or with the woman who waxes your eyebrows or with the nice man who does your taxes does...
...past 20 years. Similar efforts in the U.S., however, have been received less rapturously. Attempts to build an American version of Eden called Earthpark stalled for years as Midwestern cities like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, doubting the project's profitability, said no. (Tiny Pella, near Iowa City, finally said yes to Earthpark, scheduled to open...