Unlike the HeLa cell line named after her, Henrietta Lacks was little heard of until the 2010 publication of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920 in Virginia, ...
Each member receives votes consisting of share votes (one vote for each share of the Bank's capital stock held by the member) plus basic votes (calculated so that the sum of all basic votes is equal ...
Immortal cell lines, such as HeLa cells, are the backbone of many experiments conducted by today's cell and molecular biologists, but most of them give little thought to the origins of the ...
Dede Henley is a provocative thought-leader for executives. Do you know that every person who works for you has a super power? Well, they do. Superman could lift tall buildings, and Luke Skywalker ...
One way to limit the power of the new Congress under the Constitution was to be specific about what it could do. These enumerated, or listed, powers were contained in Article I, Section 8—the ...
John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He previously served for six years as the film critic. A former professor at Georgetown University ...
Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. She writes for NPR.org and she can be heard on NPR's newsmagazines and music podcasts. One of the nation's most notable music critics ...