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...deal. The scientists, from three private labs in La Jolla, Calif., and Detroit made the clones by a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer: They took the nuclei from skin cells of adult men, inserted the genetic material into enucleated eggs from female donors, and got the eggs to begin dividing, forming embryos containing stem cells. In principle, replacement tissues grown from those cells would be genetically identical to the men they came from. So they could, in principle, be used to fix failing organs, without any fear of rejection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientists Clone Human Embryos | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Under the new schedule, classes for undergraduates will begin two weeks earlier and end a week earlier, and reading period will be shortened by about three days, lasting for eight days...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Academic Calendar Overhauled | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

Before the gears of a third trial could begin to turn, Alexander Pring-Wilson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Friday. He was sentenced to two years and one day in prison...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pring-Wilson Pleads Guilty | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...then Shahrazad offers herself to Shahriyar. Knowing that she will be killed in the morning, Shahrazad begins telling her new husband a story, only to break off at a suspenseful moment. Shahriyar allows her to survive until the following evening, and Shahrazad ends the first story only to begin another. She does this 1000 more times...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Shahrazad’ Worth More Than a Thousand Words | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

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