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Dulles’ campaign was neither so desperate nor dramatic. Dulles, a lawyer with a respected, small international law boutique, said that he did not run on a platform and had no bone to pick with the HAA establishment...
...History for Dummies." The famous how-to series has issued a number of patriotic titles over the last year, devoted to politics, our nation's capital, the Civil War and a new volume covering presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. They allow the prospective patriot to bone up on the grand saga of the American ideals of freedom and equality, while at the same time keeping track of our original sins through chapter titles such as "fighting the Indians - again...
...matched set of articles published online by the British science journal Nature last week seemed calculated to provide succor to both sides in the simmering stem-cell debate. In one study, University of Minnesota researchers isolated bone-marrow cells from adult mice, grew them in dishes and injected them into mouse embryos, where they developed into nerve, liver and other types of cells. In the other study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health did similar work with stem cells from mouse embryos, which developed into brain cells that produce dopamine and could be used to treat Parkinson's disease...
...Although the Bush administration has endorsed the U.N. fact-finding mission, it urged the international body on Monday to consider Israel's objections - a political bone thrown, says the Israeli media (see below) in exchange for Sharon's compliance with the Ramallah deal. But Arab and European skeptics point out that Washington responds differently when the man seeking to limit the terms of U.N. inquiry, is Saddam Hussein...
...piece, Elizabeth Taylor has amassed one of the world's most famous jewelry collections. There is the flawless 33.18 carat Krupp diamond given to her by Richard Burton when she was 36, and the pear-shaped white pearl that was briefly lost when her dog thought it was a bone. In October, Simon & Schuster will publish "My Love Affair with Jewelry" by Liz herself, with all of the jewelry specially photographed for the book...