June 04--Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have produced the first lab-grown limb. The living rat's leg is a beginning. Laboratory scientists remain a long way from creating an entire reality TV star.
Disney and the NBA say they're developing an interactive and immersive theme park attraction, "The NBA Experience at Walt Disney World Resort." Wait. Why not "It's a Tall World After All"?
Universal's Florida park a few miles from Disney World, meanwhile, is opening the NBC Sports Cafe later this year. Pro tip: You don't want to be overserved Pierre Inside the Glass.
One-hundred thirty-three fraternity and sorority chapters at 55 U.S. colleges were shuttered or sanctioned for an array of offenses in the spring semester, Bloomberg reports. Seems the campus Greek system needs greater self-discipline even more than Greece's financial system.
Lincoln Chafee, a former U.S. senator and Rhode Island governor, launched his bid for the White House, calling on the United States to more fully embrace the metric system. Which is 1,609,344 kilometers from this country's biggest problem.
The experimental Solar Impulse 2 trying to fly around the globe has been grounded a few days by bad weather. While it was en route from China to Hawaii, a gust-damaged wing forced the solar-powered plane to land in Japan. Score one for wind power.
State Farm named Michael Tipsord its CEO successor to Ed Rust Jr., who will remain chairman. The insurance company promoted from within. Passed over was Jake from State Farm.
Jeremy Bentham, the father of modern utilitarianism, isn't getting younger but maintains regular hours for visitors at University College London. This is notable in that Bentham, who sits for the most part in a glass-fronted cabinet, died 183 years ago Saturday. He would be 267 today.
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