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...case that elbowed terrorism off the top of the radio talk-show topic list and gave American parents and sports fans plenty of dark thoughts, a Reading, Mass., truck driver was on trial last week for killing the adult supervising a kids' hockey scrimmage. Friday evening, after a six-day trial in which the defendant and his son both testified, a jury of nine women and three men convicted Thomas Junta, 44, of involuntary manslaughter, which could earn him up to 20 years in the state penalty box. The most likely sentence, to be announced at a hearing...
These relationships are especially valuable at a time when adult children move around a lot. "The children have their own lives," explains Helen Sih. "But friends have the same interests as you." Sih is one of a group of eight Chinese-American couples in their 70s and 80s who moved one by one in the 1990s from New York to Rossmoor, a retirement community in Walnut Creek, Calif. They all arrived from China in 1950, raised their children together and, for over 30 years, held monthly dances and played mah-jongg...
...sitcom pilot (racist guy with a black lady friend saddles his racist dad with a black roommate). But the cast is uniformly superb, and Marc Forster's attentive direction gives proper weight to each perplexing emotion. Strip away the strident melodrama, and you have this season's moodiest, most adult love story...
...solution may be on the horizon. Last week two research teams said they had removed the pig gene responsible for the most severe form of rejection. Not only that. Both teams--one from PPL Therapeutics, which in 1996 helped make Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult animal, and the other from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Immerge BioTherapeutics, of Charlestown, Mass.--then cloned their little pigs, producing five and four piglets, respectively...
...piglets, genetically modified to have organs compatible for human transplant, the world's first cloned mammal was found to have arthritis, possibly as a result of her unique origin. Dolly the sheep, who was cloned at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute from a cell taken from an adult animal, has developed the disease several years earlier than is normal for a sheep. Roslin scientist Ian Wilmut called for systematic reviews of the health of cloned animals. Profile: But She's So Young AUSTRALIA Black Christmas for Sydneysiders For more than 14 days smoke drifted over Sydney's famous...