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...bore the brunt in eastern Germany, where a television station broadcast footage of an elderly woman plunging more than 30 feet into the roiling floodwater when rescuers attempted to airlift her out of danger; she later died in the hospital. Dozens of patients in Dresden's hospitals, including a day-old, 1-lb. 8-oz. baby, had to be evacuated by car and helicopter. With the Elbe River rising to its highest level in history, rescuers worked frantically to move thousands of paintings, including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, from the flooded basement of the baroque Zwinger Palace...
...never countenance such work in humans, they say. Cows, yes, but we would never implant a cloned human embryo in the uterus of a woman and grow it to the stage of a fetus. We solemnly promise to grow human clones only to the blastocyst stage, a tiny 8-day-old cell mass no larger than the period at the end of this sentence, so that we can extract stem cells and cure diseases that way. Nothing more. No fetuses. No implantation. No brave new world of fetal farming...
...less this year on holiday affairs, as once lavish fetes are drastically downscaled (example: at Estee Lauder, talk of holding potluck lunches) or money once spent on celebration goes to charity. One sign of revelry in reverse: champagne makers fear holiday sales may be as flat as day-old Cristal...
...political settlement could be reached and rebels persuaded to lay down their arms. But conditions for the deployment seemed remote. Talks in Skopje between parties representing the country's ethnic Albanian and Macedonian Slav ethnic groups foundered on differences over constitutional changes. Government forces then broke an 11-day-old cease-fire by launching an offensive on three villages in the hills just outside Skopje...
Only a third of Harvard students support the 13 day-old occupation of Mass. Hall by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and support for PSLM's living wage campaign has dropped significantly in the last year, according to a Harvard Crimson poll...