Well, this is hopeful news. Drugs made from bone marrow stem cells are in their final stages of human testing. From the story:Three pivotal Phase 3 trials—the last step before seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to market a drug—are under way already for Prochrymal, and some . . . . Continue Reading »
“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?” From Cat on a Hot Tin RoofThe line quoted above, uttered by Big Daddy to Brick, is one of my favorite lines in any play. It came . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Jacobs, who has written often for First Things , always with wit and wisdom , has written this for Christianity Today . For those of us outside the Anglican Communion, it’s all too easy to wax snide about the, well, you know. Everyone knows. And that seems to be Jacobs’ point. What . . . . Continue Reading »
? If Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks had wanted to make a screwball comedy about modern American covert operations that was also a not-so-covert commentary on the current war in Iraq, Charlie Wilson’s War would have been it. ? Yes, sir—killing Russians has never been such a gas. And to . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a bit off topic, but I think it is worth pondering. This link will take you to photos of what different families eat in one week. The disparity is sobering. Here are a few samples:Germany:Mexico:Ecuador:Refugee Camp in . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a terribly tragic case: Javona Peters has been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (a terrible name for a diagnosis, the only one I know of which contains a pejorative, a derivation of the V word). She became unconscious less than three months ago, and so the diagnosis seems . . . . Continue Reading »
An article in Commentary by former Bush Administration staffer Jay P. Lefkowitz is a very interesting read. It amounts to an inside story about how and why President Bush made his controversial stem cell funding decision that has caused “the scientists” and media so much heartburn. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
In the January issue of Commentary , there’s a fascinating article called “Stem Cells and the President—An Inside Account,” written by Jay Lefkowitz, who was the official “primarily responsible for advising the President” on the issue of stem cells during the . . . . Continue Reading »
? It’s late thirties England and a little rich girl named Briony Tallis with an overlarge vocabulary and pretensions to literary greatness tells a big fat lie to the police and ruins the life of her sister’s love interest (James McAvoy) because, well, she’s got a crush on him too, . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Beliefnet , Michael Kress has a coup of an interview —one that includes audio clips—with Denzel Washington, who starred in two films this year: American Gangster and the just-released The Great Debaters —both based on true stories. Like all the Bnet interviews, which have . . . . Continue Reading »
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