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Barres did get in there and today, with a B.S. from MIT, an M.D. from Dartmouth and a Ph.D. from Harvard, Barres, 51, is a leading neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford. He’s also a female-to-male transgendered person (Barbara became Ben in 1997) who is speaking out about discrimination against women in science–on behalf of his former female self and the young female scientists he mentors. Last week, in a commentary published in the journal Nature, Barres took aim at the gender-gap-in-science debate sparked in 2005 by the then Harvard president Lawrence Summers....

The immune system is exquisitely designed to repel foreign invaders while leaving the body’s own tissues alone. White blood cells patrol the body, orchestrating attacks on any substance whose molecular markers, or antigens, look unfamiliar. Previous studies have shown that when diabetes sets in, the immune system reacts violently to several antigens found on normal islet cells. But until now, no one knew which antigen set off the destructive cascade....

Players who are leaving: Club legends Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben will be leaving the club after over a decade of service which has made them fan favorites over the years. Versatile fullback Rafinha will also be leaving after spending 8 seasons in Munich colours. Niko Kovac and James Rodriguez are not the best of combinations and Spanish media houses are reporting that the Colombian will not be in Munich next season....

A Plague Tale: Innocence was developed by Asobo Studio and first released in May 2019, another very busy year for games. Due to this, the game ended up flying under a lot of players’ radars, with a small community quickly singing the game’s praises and regarding it as one of the greatest games of the year. The game takes inspiration from AAA cinematic games such as The Last of Us, and follows a young girl named Amicia who is trying to protect her little brother, Hugo, from the French Inquisition during the Hundred-Year War....

Plastic gets a bad rap, and often for a good reason. But it is also superior to metal and glass in many ways. According to a report from the absurdly well-sourced Apple journalist Mark Gurman, Apple was considering a plastic iPad with a matching keyboard for under $500 but abandoned the idea. The draw here, for Apple, was presumably price. But anyone who has suffered a crack in their glass-backed Phone or had an iPhone Pro drag their summer shorts down will know that metals and glass aren’t always best....

PHOTO (COLOR): Mobuta at a press conference with rebel leaders on May 4

During pregame introductions, Rodriguez lined up with his teammates as New York’s designated hitter, batting seventh against Toronto. A-Rod was cheered louder than any member of the Yankees’ starting lineup, drowning out a few scattered boos. But, because of enhanced security measures at the entrances to the ballpark, the stands were less than half full when the Yankees and Blue Jays were introduced. During the top of the first inning, during their routine of chanting each starter’s name on the field, the right field Bleacher Creatures added a chant for A-Rod, who obliged from the dugout with a tip of his cap....

From the visitors’ dugout of Kaufmann Stadium, a familiar face stared across the diamond at the once friendly confines. He had become an All-Star on this field as a player. He had taught on this field as a coach. He had centered his life around this fine city, establishing a successful business and raising his children here. Yet, under all the memories, with every cell of Royal blue blood pumping through his veins, there is an unfortunate stain of bitterness that may never be forgotten....

Oakland built its 2019 roster around the expectation that the group, led by closer Blake Treinen and setup man Lou Trivino, would again be a strength. It limited investment in starting pitching, instead banking on its relievers to come in as early as the fifth inning and shut down opponents the rest of the way. The gamble has not yielded anticipated results. Few members of the bullpen, Treinen included, have met the standard they established last campaign....

The A’s were surprise winners of the American League West in 2012, less surprising victors in 2013 and, again loaded with pitching, Oakland will strongly contend for its third straight division title. That’s despite a payroll the fraction of the West’s heavyweights in Los Angeles and Texas. Even the Mariners are in the free-spending act, signing Robinson Cano to a $240 million deal. Oakland just plugs away with a payroll that again is expected to be under $70 million, using the latest twist on “Moneyball,” the team’s cost-saving platoon system....

Matt Chapman, Matt Olson and Sean Manaea came up through the A’s farm system together, and they’ve in turn developed a love for each other and their franchise that has helped power the team to consecutive 97-win seasons. The next crop of rookies can now bond over their disdain for the organization. The franchise on Tuesday became the first in MLB to cut weekly pay entirely for minor leaguers amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving its players wishing they’d been drafted elsewhere....

His hosts listened warily. “We have to be very careful that any such project does not retrigger… a renewed arms race,” warned German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. The reception in Moscow over the weekend was expected to be even chillier. The Russians are fearful that Washington will junk the 28-year-old antiballistic-missile treaty that bans America and Russia from erecting national missile defenses. The Russians can’t afford to rebuild their aging ICBM arsenal to be able to overcome a missile shield in the West....

Got that? You’re probably not alone if you think Web addresses are becoming unmanageable and ugly, bordering on unsuitable for public consumption. A three-year- old company called RealNames hopes to put a more presentable face on unsightly URLs. It has created nothing less than a parallel domain name system in which “real names” correspond to the holy tangle of http’s, dashes, underscores and random- seeming words that make up the average Web site address....

No wonder he wasn’t invited. But by shutting him out, the debate commission may have turned a harmless gadfly into a martyr. After Nader was tossed from the Boston site like some bum who’d wandered into the Harvard Club, David Letterman declared him the winner. After watching the uninspiring debate, a lot of viewers apparently agreed; Nader jumped to 7 percent in some national polls. Last week, with celebrities like Phil Donahue and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, an energized Nader packed 10,000 supporters into a Chicago arena and filled Madison Square Garden at $20 a head....