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...debut 2003 novel Amok, Polish author Krystian Bala describes the torture and murder of a young woman whose hands are bound behind her back with a cord that is then looped to form a noose around her neck. According to a judge's ruling this week in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, Bala was drawing not on his imagination for that scene, but on his own experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polish Murder Stranger Than Fiction | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Those “adult” stem cells are taken from the umbilical cord immediately after birth, and have been put forth by many embryonic stem cell opponents as a way to avoid destroying embryos...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disgraced Scientist Gets Redemptive Discovery | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...that parthenogenetic stem cells have been discovered, will we finally begin to see the kind of individualized treatments - for diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries - that science has promised? Probably not. Although parthenogenesis is easier to achieve than nuclear transfer - about 20% of the time, eggs can be stimulated to divide on their own, compared to a 3%-5% development rate for nuclear transfer embryos - parthenogenesis still requires a steady supply of good quality human eggs. These are notoriously difficult to obtain, so the technique won't likely revolutionize medicine yet. But, suggests Daley, it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korean Cloner Redeemed... Sort Of | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Caribbean Getaway Becomes an AIDS Hot Spot | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...plan is implemented, students who choose to pay for television would plug a small box into a power outlet in their room. An Ethernet cord would then transmit the signal to a computer or another box that connects to a television...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable TV Could Come to Houses | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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