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...perhaps we can. Last month a well-known infertility specialist, Panayiotis Zavos of the University of Kentucky, announced that he and Italian researcher Severino Antinori, the man who almost seven years ago helped a 62-year-old woman give birth using donor eggs, were forming a consortium to produce the first human clone. Researchers in South Korea claim they have already created a cloned human embryo, though they destroyed it rather than implanting it in a surrogate mother to develop. Recent cover stories in Wired and the New York Times Magazine tracked the efforts of the Raelians, a religious group...
...leading PSA, known as Sakhalin 2, is run by Sakhalin Energy, a consortium led by Royal Dutch/Shell, Europe's largest oil company, with a 55% stake. At $10 billion, it is Russia's largest single foreign investment project. It is also the market's first and only success story to date. It required more than 1,000 permits, but last year Sakhalin Energy's Molikpaq rig produced 1.6 million tons of oil, more than 80,000 bbl. a day, during the ice-free season from June to December...
...thing is for sure: Harvard is not alone. Advising problems seem to be a general trend among selective schools. Groups that compare data from these schools, such as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), confirm that academic advising needs work...
Leaders from both the consortium and Celera said they were excited for the new research opportunities the completed mapping of the genome-- which is also available on the Internet--will provide...
...years leading up to World War II - and eventually by the SS, which was charged with rounding up Europe's Jews. Although it has long been known that IBM's German arm, which was taken over by the Nazis, had cooperated with the regime - and, indeed, was in a consortium of companies making payments to survivors and victims' families - Black says that the American parent was fully aware of the use to which the technology was put. And after the Germans surrendered, Black says, IBM's U.S. office was quick to collect profits made during the war by the subsidiary...