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Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "New research shows that rats that had their spinal columns severed were able to regain use of their hind legs through the use of stem cells from embryonic rats." From the Wired article: "Spinal cord injuries can be caused by accidents or infections and affect 250,000 people a year in the United States alone, costing $4 billion annually, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders. Whittemore's team took specific cells from rat embryos called glial restricted precursor cells -- a kind of stem cell or master cell that gives rise to nerve cells."
and the rhetoric will go all the way to 11!
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So... Iran is a relatively nice place except for being a dictatorship with faked elections?
OK, ok, it fits with what I've read. Next time I want to compare the US' midwest with something insulting, I'll pick Saudi Arabia. Happy? :-)
And I was being insulting. Even in the bible belt, they have different churches and more or less tolerate different opinions.
Since you're from Iran, I have two questions.
a) I've heard the argument that the longer the Iran's priests keep the population down, the better. When the religious nuts then lose power, they will be so hated that Iran will treat religion as we north europeans. Comments?
b) Is this really part of the dogma? I heard a muslim guy argue that:
- To blaspheme against is punishable by death for a muslim (Rushdie, etc)
- Islam is obviously true, because muslim scholars never publish anything contradicting the religion!
I still laugh when I think about "b)", almost fifteen years later.Karma: Excellent (My Karma? I wish...:-( )
faked elections?
.. after all we have radical islamism which doenst mind kiling westerners and even muslims who they claim have become 'tainted' [crazy ideas like "lets live in peace with everyone", and "lets concentrate on the nice bits of the holy Qu'uran"] with the west. collateral damage. alot like your neo con regime. the ideology is pure! it rules everytng to conceal the massive self interest!
so america and iran now have somehting else in common apart from great natural resources and hated fundemntalist distactors. faked elections.
hanging chads? florida 2000. a shadowy cabal casually called "the electoral college" decided th eoutcome?
there is very little proof that the election was mis handled in this way.
why would they bother when you get to preselect all the candidates through a vetting system?
that is yeah we have strong democracy of no one to choose from. and no free speech.
bit like usa, though. the democrat challanger to bush was another super rich upper middle class 15 generation white man.
yeah religion is deeply unfashionable among the young. looking back toward our pre islam roots. zoarastrianism and other stuff i neve rheard of.
but the young faithful . like young Republicans or Christain teen rockers [or those weird fucking mormon missionaries tat used to amuse me so mcuh when i studied over in england] except they are scary fanatics who arent scared to beat you up under the approval and eye of the revelutionary guard.
so a bit closer to the nutjobs who blow up abortion clinics and whatnot except not as rare . more younger and plentiful like the young amarican christians.
they are mainly underpriveledged yokels to tell you the truth. this is what happens when you neglect your rural regions who slump into poverty and decline, with nothing to hope for!
get verizon FTTP out to biloxi, miss. before it is too late! indeed the rural, undepriveldged marginalised became the touchpaper powerbase for the 79 revolution in iran..
its a little familiar aint it?
ever heard of leo strauss?
eeek! the more i look into it the more i see where you are coming from
i shouldt have been so over sensitive.!
oh and teensy request..
could you take bakc your land of the free? put the voter back in the saddle and make america great once more mm'kay?
make it somwhere not where we want to emigrate to or where our insource incomings are coming from but a place taht makes us want to be like you. make our country work like yours.
instead you just scare us. and tempt us to throw out the baby of freedom and humanity with the bath water of selfish ignorance and apathy to murder and oppression [against your own people no less.
let me ask you this . has america invented and innovated over the last 200 years?
hell yes. the most amazing music and literature and cinema has come from america in the last 200 years. let not the purist euro trash snobs fool you. they are just jealous.
but why? cause youre a wonderful people OPRESSED . like the wonderful russian cineama and music and literature under the czars and then the communists.
love and peace,
el che
if you vere wan
t to come to iran and im over there youre fre to get somewhere to stay with me and have me as your guide.
you are saying. I've read the koran, I have it at home standing next to the bible and some books by krishnamurti. The koran is in general a more tolerant book then the bible. I'm not claiming to much knowledge because as the bible it is a hard book to read. But the general feeling I got was one of genuine worship and tolerance for all other believes. I guess it's as with any faith..... it's the people that corrupt it. The crusades where never a christian idea... they were an idea from powerfull people wanting to be more powerfull. I gues all faiths have men like these. I'm sorry for all muslims that are persecuted because of the deeds of a few extremists. We have our own problems here in the Netherlands and I basicaly think we should keep faith out of it. There is a more fundamental issue. If you are a mulsim, jew, christian or budhist and you want to live here all you have to do is accept that my country has democratic values under wich you can be what ever your faith requires you to be. As long as you do not opose the rights of others to do the same thing. We are a tolerant country and if you do not like that fact that gays can get married here, that it is ok not to believe in any god, that it is ok to believe whatever you want as long as it's not hatefull to others .....you do not belong here and should leave or stay away.