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...could have stopped it, I would have, to make her life a little more comfortable. She's accepted it now, and she's very proud of the fact I put in her name. That comes with being an adult. But as a child, that was rough...
...part by the epidemic rates of childhood obesity. Overweight children are more than twice as likely to have high blood pressure or heart disease as children of normal weight. Even more alarming is the number of children with Type 2, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes. Once known as adult-onset diabetes--before so many children started getting it--Type 2 diabetes puts kids at risk for very adult ailments, including blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure and cardiovascular disease...
...Percentage of adult Americans who contributed money, clothing or time to WTC disaster relief...
...mill livestock like Dolly the sheep, could exotic endangered species have been far behind? Meet Noah the gaur, the first endangered clone. The gaur is a species of wild ox that is fast disappearing from its native India and Burma. Noah started out as a skin cell on an adult gaur that was fused with an empty egg from an ordinary cow and then brought to term by another cow named Bessie. Scientists hope that similar operations will someday be a practical way to keep endangered species alive. Too late for Noah, however. He died from an infection two days...
...blocked. After much soul searching, President Bush decided last summer to allow federal grants for research that used only the 60 or so stem-cell lines that have already been established. Some scientists fear those 60 lines will not be adequate. Meanwhile, other scientists are making headway in turning adult cells into functional equivalents of embryonic stem cells, which, if successful, would neatly sidestep the controversy...