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...BRITAIN Human Clones Ban Britain became the first country to announce a ban on human reproductive cloning. Health Secretary Alan Milburn said the government would enact legislation within months to outlaw the practice, but would dedicate more funding to other genetic research. Human cloning is already banned by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which has the power to grant licenses, but the new move would create a permanent statutory ban. Milburn said the government would invest another $43 million in genetic screening, enabling Britain to offer free testing to women with an inherited risk of breast cancer...
RETURNED. The KILSHAW TWINS, 8-month-old adopted daughters of Alan and Judith Kilshaw of Wales; to a Missouri court that will examine their claim on the girls, who were brokered over the Internet...
...neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more has no basis in science...
...vessel for the communication and exploration of important social issues. In recent years many weighty topics, including AIDS and racism have found expression through its pages. In fact, comics have so effectively closed the gap between popular entertainment and literature that many critically acclaimed stories, such as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns have found their way onto college literature syllabuses...
...After moving to Cambridge, UK in 1974, playing the folk clubs for a few years and eventually joining up with Rob Lamb, Andy Metcalfe and Windsor as Dennis and the Experts, Hitchcock found himself announcing the band as the Soft Boys to a crowd at a Nov. 1976 show. Alan Davies soon replaced Lamb, and the EP Give it to the Soft Boys was released in 1977. Rew replaced Davies, and the 1979 psychedelic Can of Bees LP—clearly influenced by the Bs: Sid Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, the Byrds, and William Burroughs—was recorded...