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...Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines says there are an average of 15,000 to 20,000 land-mine deaths or injuries annually as innocent victims wander onto the leftover devices. Unknown numbers of unexploded mines are waiting to find victims in Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and many other countries...
...Cambridge’s smoking ban deprived it of its hookahs, but Algiers (40 Brattle St.) still serves up delicious Arabic coffee, mint tea, and hummus—an indulgent place to ruminate after a film screening at Brattle Theatre, the only remaining independent film theatre left in the city, which is itself in a struggle for existence...
...show human embryonic stem cells can develop into similar cardiac master cells in humans. Chien said he believes Harvard’s institutional support for this research is crucial for further discoveries in the field because governmental support of stem cell research is lagging due to a continued ban on using federal funds to finance human embryonic stem cell research. “This research makes a compelling case that we should aggressively expand our attention and focus on human embryonic stem cell lines,” Chien said. —Staff writer Anupriya Singhal can be reached...
...they blame for most of Poland's ongoing economic and political problems. Relations with Russia have deteriorated under their governance: a European Union effort to sign a new deal with Russia on energy investment collapsed on November 24 partly because of Polish objections. (Poland wanted Russia to lift a ban on the import of Polish meats and other produce, which Poles say Russia imposed in retaliation for Polish support of the so-called Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine). The brothers have maintained Poland's historical support for the U.S., commanding a sector of Iraq and agreeing this month to send...
Using his firstveto since heentered office, President George W. Bush rejected a bill that would have partially lifted his 2001 ban on the use of federal funds for human embryonic-stem-cell research. The measure would have allowed government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from IVF procedures to generate stem cells, a potential source of new treatments for everything from diabetes to Parkinson's. At a press conference this summer, Bush surrounded himself with "snowflake babies," born after couples adopted frozen embryos, and argued that such research was morally questionable. Still, U.S. scientists are pushing ahead...