Joanne Kathleen Rowling's transformation from struggling single mother to literary phenomenon stands as one of publishing's most extraordinary success stories. Born in 1965 in Gloucestershire, she created the Harry Potter series—seven novels that have sold over 500 million copies worldwide, been translated into more than 80 languages, and generated a multi-billion-pound entertainment empire.Rowling's early life featured ordinary struggles that later influenced her fiction. After stu...

Most fans of The Simpsons can distinguish Lenny from Carl without checking their hands. But only real fans recall the Eastern European equivalent of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, know the name of Barney Gumble's submission to the Springfield Film Festival, and have road tripped to the World's Fair in Knoxville.100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans, whether you read at a Ralph Wiggum or Lisa Simpso...

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Now that prohibitions against stem cell research are relaxing, it is time for the field to move forward with the advances that promise to eliminate so much human suffering. However, it would be naive to ignore the fact that regenerative medicines pose a whole new set of challenges to an industry sector that for decades has geared itself to the deve