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Although the produced cells seem to recapitulate many of the properties of embryonic stem cells—including the ability to form cell types of each of the three major types in the human body—many of their major caveats seem to have been ignored. Statements that claim that embryos will never have to be sacrificed to create stem cells again are irresponsible and may well prove to be entirely incorrect...
...allowed to begin drawing from their allotted $400 campaign budgets, seeking student group endorsements, or otherwise soliciting votes until 12:01 p.m. on Thursday. AN OUTSIDE CHANCEHad Laures and Oakland moved forward with their candidacy, they would have represented the third outsider ticket in a race that can claim only two participants with any UC experience—presidential candidate Sundquist and running mate Randall S. Sarafa ’09, who chairs the Council’s Finance Committee.The other two remaining tickets include the presidential-vice presidential pairings of Roy T. Willey...
...There's a hush to hear Howard concede, replaced by boos as he boasts how the Coalition has made Australia "stronger, prouder and more prosperous than it was 11 and a half years ago." A chant of "Bulls__" greets his claim that Australia's economy has made it "the envy of the world." This is a crowd sick of economic blather and thirsty for talk of higher values. Howard goes on a bit. "Now he's going to talk for 11 and a half years," someone quips...
...that Huckabee raised taxes and increased spending as governor. Thompson has even raised questions about Huckabee's multiple run-ins with the Arkansas Ethics Commission during his 10-year stint as governor over issues ranging from how he paid himself with campaign cash in the early 1990s to his claim in 1998 that some $70,000 in furniture donated to the governor's mansion actually belonged to him and his wife. (Most of the 14 ethics complaints against Huckabee were small-bore, but he did receive five admonitions from the Commission and $1,000 in fines...
...research facility running a cascade of 3,000 centrifuges at peak efficiency could potentially produce enough material for one nuclear bomb a year, although Oelrich notes that technical difficulties are believed to be hampering the Iranian program. Skepticism over whether Iran is as advanced as its leaders claim it to be in mastering enrichment technology hampers the case being made by Washington's hawks that a moment of truth has arrived...