Dream Team documentary shows footage of lone loss

NEW YORK (AP) ? Not urban legend: The Dream Team really did lose to a group of college stars.

A new documentary commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Olympic gold medalists has the footage to prove it. The video shot at the time so coaches could analyze practice will now be televised to the world.

"The Dream Team" premieres Wednesday night on NBA TV, chronicling the future Hall of Famers ? led by Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird ? who became the first NBA players to compete at the Olympics at the 1992 Barcelona Games. All 12 members sat down for fresh interviews.

NBA Entertainment cameras followed around the team during the Olympics, and some of that footage aired in various forms then. This is the first time all the behind-the-scenes moments have been shown together in one place.

"A lot of these things, we all kind of heard these stories," executive producer Dion Cocoros said. "'Hey, I heard they lost to the select team. Did they really have these intense practices?' To show it takes it to the next level. A lot of this has been discussed for 20 years but never seen."

The players participated in individual interviews from September through March. Each seemed to add a new anecdote or observation that the next Dream Teamer was asked about.

"It really sparked almost like a memory in them when we'd mention something they hadn't thought of in a while," Cocoros said.

In the 90-minute film, Jordan recalls his initial reluctance to commit to the team, signing on only after hearing that so many of his fellow superstars were on board. There's footage of the Dream Teamers going at each other in practice with the vigor of a playoff game.

Off the court, the players reminisce about all the topless bathers when they trained in Monte Carlo. Another clip shows John Stockton, camcorder on his shoulder, walking around Barcelona with his family and trying ? unsuccessfully ? to get fans to recognize him.

As far as that one loss, Mike Krzyzewski, a Dream Team assistant, insists in the film that coach Chuck Daly "threw" the scrimmage as a lesson to his players during pre-Olympic preparations in San Diego by not making adjustments and using Michael Jordan very little. Still, it would seem any combination of five of the future Hall of Famers should have been able to defeat the college kids without any strategizing.

Associated Press

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Egyptians rally against Mubarak-era candidate

Egyptian protesters show the soles of their shoes in a sign of disrespect as they shout slogans against Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was forced to step down as prime minister after Mubarak's ouster last year, during a protest in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. Several hundred protesters rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising. Arabic at left reads ,"revolution law and not military law" and at center on poster showing the face of Shafiq with the star of David reading, "Ahmed Shafiq."(AP Photo/Amr Nabil).

Egyptian protesters show the soles of their shoes in a sign of disrespect as they shout slogans against Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was forced to step down as prime minister after Mubarak's ouster last year, during a protest in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. Several hundred protesters rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising. Arabic at left reads ,"revolution law and not military law" and at center on poster showing the face of Shafiq with the star of David reading, "Ahmed Shafiq."(AP Photo/Amr Nabil).

A Egyptian police officer walks between the cars waiting to fill up at a Mobil gas station amid a fuel shortage in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)

An Egyptian woman chants slogans against Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq at a protest in Tahrir Square decrying the result of the first round of voting in the Egyptian presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. Several hundred protesters rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising.(AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)

Egyptians perform the noon prayer at a protest in Tahrir Square decrying the result of the first round of voting in the Egyptian presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. Several hundred protesters rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising.(AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)

CAIRO (AP) ? Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Egypt on Friday to demand that Ahmed Shafiq, a former senior official in Hosni Mubarak's ousted regime, be disqualified from next month's presidential runoff.

Shafiq, who served as Mubarak's last prime minister, was one of the top two finishers in the first round of Egypt's landmark presidential election last month, advancing to a June 16-17 runoff against Mohammed Morsi, the candidate of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

The Morsi-Shafiq race is a polarizing contest. It mirrors the conflict between Mubarak, himself a career air force officer like Shafiq, and the Islamists he jailed and tortured throughout his years in power. But it sidelines the mostly young, secular activists who led the popular uprising last year.

In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, at least 7,000 protesters, some of them carrying Egyptian flags or holding their shoes in the air in a sign of disrespect, said that Shafiq should be barred from running because of his senior position in the Mubarak regime.

Smaller rallies demanding Shafiq's disqualification also took place in Cairo, Port Said, Suez, North Sinai as well as at least six other provinces.

Shafiq has cast himself as a strongman who will restore law and order after nearly 16 months of sporadic but violent protests and a lapse in security. Shortly after the first round results were announced this week, Shafiq's campaign headquarters in Cairo was torched.

Opponents view Shafiq as the favorite of the ruling military council that took over after Mubarak's ouster. Egypt's four presidents all hailed from the military.

Mubarak himself has been charged with complicity in the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the 18-day uprising that pushed him from power. A court is to hand down its verdict on Saturday.

Many Egyptians say they want neither Shafiq, considered "feloul," or a remnant of the Mubarak era, nor the Brotherhood's candidate, Morsi, as their next president, and protesters criticized both candidates Friday.

"I am here and I don't want Shafiq or Morsi because Shafiq spilled our children's blood. I paid the price of this revolution upfront," said Magda, the mother of a protester killed during last year's uprising. "As for the Brotherhood, they sat in parliament and what have they done?"

Some of the protesters Friday chanted slogans against both candidates as well as the ruling military council that took power after Mubarak was toppled, and some in the crowd said they will boycott the runoff.

"I don't want either candidate because we didn't benefit from either and the country didn't benefit from either," Cairo protester Ahmed Abdel-Fattah said.

Activists are also pressing for the implementation of a law passed by the recently elected parliament, which bars former top regime officials from the past 10 years from running for office.

Shafiq was briefly disqualified from the race ahead of last month's vote after parliament passed the law, but he was reinstated 24 hours later after the presidential election commission referred the law to the Constitutional Court. The court is set to rule on the issue just four days ahead of the runoff.

Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign minister and ex-chief of the Arab League, lent his support Saturday to 15 liberal parties and lawmakers pressing Morsi and Shafiq to agree to a list of demands, including the formation of representative government and oversight of the writing of a new constitution that guarantees the rights of minorities.

Moussa finished fifth in the first round of the presidential vote.

Also Friday, drivers waited in long lines at gas stations across much of the country for the second day in a row. The stream of cars lined up outside Cairo gas stations has compounded the problem of the city's daily traffic jams.

The government vowed to resolve the crisis by Saturday, blaming the shortage on electrical problems at a main fuel supplier.

The state-run Al-Ahram newspaper quoted unnamed Oil Ministry officials as saying the government was behind on payments to suppliers, causing a delay in oil shipments to Egypt.

Lines also formed at gas stations in January just days before the one-year anniversary of the revolt. The gas crisis then blew over as quickly as it started. It is not clear what sparked that crisis, but many activists claimed it was a plot by military rulers to make people long for the days when Mubarak was in power.

Associated Press

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Potential new approach to regenerating skeletal muscle tissue

Friday, June 1, 2012

An innovative strategy for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue using cells derived from the amniotic fluid is outlined in new research published by scientists at the UCL Institute of Child Health.

The paper shows that damaged muscle tissues can be treated with cells derived from the fluids which surround the fetus during development, leading to satisfactory regeneration and muscle activity. The treatment resulted in longer survival in mice affected by a muscle variant of spinal muscular atrophy. This is the first time that regeneration of diseased muscle tissue has been obtained using cells derived from amniotic fluid.

The research appears in the journal Stem Cells, is authored by Dr Paolo de Coppi (UCL Institute of Child Health and surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital) and colleagues in Paris and Padova, and represents an impressive development in the growing field of regenerative medicine.

Muscle derived stem cells are presently considered the best source for muscle regeneration. However they cannot be used to treat muscular dystrophies because the stem cells themselves are affected in individuals with these conditions. Due to this challenge, other cell sources have been explored but so far no definitive treatment has been successful.

De Coppi's team has demonstrated that intravenous transplantation of amniotic fluid stem (AFS) cells enhances the muscle strength and improves the survival rate of the affected animals. This is the first study to demonstrate the functional and stable integration of AFS cells into skeletal muscle, highlighting their value as a cell source for the treatment of muscular dystrophies.

However, the research is still at a relatively early stage as the work has only been carried out in animal models.

Dr Coppi said: "Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease affecting one in 6,000 births. It is currently incurable and in its most severe form children with the condition may not survive long into childhood. Children with a less severe form face the prospect of progressive muscle wasting, loss of mobility and motor function. There is an urgent need for improved treatments.

"We are excited by this potential new approach for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue, but much more research is needed. We now need to perform more in-depth studies with human AFS cells in mouse models to see if it is viable to use cells derived from the amniotic fluid to treat diseases affecting skeletal muscle tissue."

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