The day after his inauguration, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Saturday helped plant a tree in the Mid-City area, attended a council member’s inauguration in Venice, spoke to police officers working the night shift in Hollywood, then ate dinner with firefighters in South Los Angeles.”If we had a school, I’d be at it today,” the mayor said, “but schools aren’t open today.”The event-hopping signaled an energetic start to what he called “a big job.” Indeed, it seemed at times that no one had told the mayor that the campaign was over.Still keyed up from his swearing-in festivities, Villaraigosa arrived early in a Mid-City neighborhood to help the nonprofit group TreePeople plant a new tree and prune 30 others. 17, 1918, in Meridian, Miss., the son of a cotton buyer and a schoolteacher. One editor got so weary of reporters complaining that Otis would never have done this or that, he finally snapped, “Otis has gone surfing, and he’s not coming back.”But he did, once, in 1999, after the paper’s new leaders cut a secret profit-sharing deal that had Times’ journalists unwittingly writing pieces for a promotional advertising issue about Staples Center.It was the same kind of conflict of interest that had besmirched his forebears’ reputations. Important for stem-cell banking, hematopoietic stem cells can be coaxed out of the bone marrow to circulate in large numbers in the blood, where they are captured with less discomfort.These stem cells, found not only in bone marrow but more recently in large concentrations in umbilical cord blood, have become a key part of treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and sometimes breast and ovarian cancers. And Rocky, of course, is up for the challenge.Stallone tackles the age issue head-on in the script.

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