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...some of the same techniques could also be used to grow a baby. Trying to block one line of research could impede another and so reduce the chances of finding cures for ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, cancer and heart disease. Were some shocking breakthrough in human cloning to cause "an overcompensatory response by legislators," says cloning expert Tony Perry of New York City's Rockefeller University, "that could be disastrous. At some point, it will potentially cost lives." So we are left with choices and trade-offs and a need to think through whether...
...Despite the lack of a canine breakthrough, dog owners are the biggest clients of Genetic Savings & Clone, a commercial spin-off of Missyplicity that offers to freeze pet dna for future cloning for $895 plus $100 annual storage. A white canister?which looks like an Artoo Detoo unit?is already full of hundreds of trays containing genetic material from cats and dogs, with a few prized horses and cattle nestled in the whirling eddies of subzero liquid nitrogen...
...Democratic Republic of Congo and recommit themselves to the peace accord signed 18 months ago and broken ever since. But the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...
Such failings may have been forgiven if Arafat had been able to deliver in the political arena. But after 33 years in power, all Arafat could bring the Palestinian people were an ambiguous set of treaties known as the Oslo Accords. Hailed in the West as a breakthrough, the Oslo Accords--which reaped Nobel Peace Prizes for Arafat and his Israeli counterparts--left the Palestinians worse off than ever before. The agreements virtually conceded that Palestinian refugees would give up their internationally-recognized human right to return to their homes--the right for which they had been fighting since...
...Rabin's method is new and potentially changes the crypto landscape," he said. "His work is very practical and is a major breakthrough...