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...Funding Ban Lifted on Stem-Cell Research It was eight years in coming - which felt like eons to some researchers - but on March 9, President Obama rescinded his predecessor's Executive Order prohibiting the use of federal money to fund research on stem cells. A congressional law still prevents scientists from using government funds to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, which can develop into any of the body's tissues, but at least scientists are now free to use that money to study the hundreds of stem-cell lines already in existence. Before embarking on such research, however...
...decade ago, doctors saw breast cancer as a monolithic disease that always progressed the same way, beginning with a single mutant cell that continued to divide and spread to the rest of the body. At the time, screening all women made sense, especially since annual mammograms had reduced deaths from breast cancer 3% each year since 1990. But as Dr. Russell Harris, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the task force, points out, breast cancer occurs less frequently in younger women, and not every cancer is the same. Some...
...Diet, Japan's parliament, approaches. Her office is filled with bouquets and orchids sent by well-wishers, adding a splash of color to the building's dreary halls - as does Fukuda herself. At age 29, she is the country's youngest member of the Diet; her pink cell phone with a tiny plush Chihuahua dangling from it, her pink blouse and black flats with bows until recently would have seemed grossly out of place in the locker room of Japanese politics...
...class is hardly blameless, but even Bolivians sympathetic to Morales complain that he and MAS have consolidated inordinate power and are wielding it with a vengeance against political foes. Several opposition leaders are under seemingly arbitrary investigation for financial fraud, illegal land holdings or ties to a supposed terrorist cell the government claims plotted to assassinate Morales last spring. The government also has flooded the country with enough Evo hagiography to rival Fidel Castro's overweening personality cult in communist Cuba. (See a story about Bolivia's bizarre conspiracy plot...
...extensively and ran hundreds of tests in sealed chambers to see if the control module - the heart of any modern power train because it dictates how much fuel the engine burns by microseconds - can be influenced by an electromagnetic pulse such as an electrical line or even a stray cell-phone signal. But the tests, the company said, turned up nothing. (See the Toyota Venza in the most exciting cars...