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...Administration has significantly expanded the number of stem-cell lines that may now be eligible for study using federal funds. Since 2001, under a Bush Administration ban, no new stem-cell lines could be created or studied using government dollars (though financing was allowed for research on a few dozen or so stem-cell lines that were already in existence), but some estimates suggest that since Bush's policy was implemented, as many as 700 new human embryonic-stem-cell lines have been created through private funding, mostly using embryos discarded by IVF clinics - and many of those lines...
...largest concern among stem-cell experts involved the status of the few dozen stem-cell lines that had qualified for federal funding, even under Bush's more restrictive policy. Stem-cell lines derived from those embryos are currently seeding many different studies, but because the embryos were not donated under the same stringent informed-consent procedures that will be required starting Tuesday, it's possible they may no longer be eligible for federal financing...
...Italy—Tomorrow, the G8 summit will convene in L’Aquila, the Italian city in the Abruzzo region that was destroyed by a horrific earthquake on April 6—a disaster that claimed 299 lives. Since April, the city has experienced at least half a dozen tremors (some of them quite significant), including three early this Monday morning and one Monday afternoon. Only two days later, the eight most powerful leaders in the world will meet there for two days. Almost everyone in Italy is asking him/herself the exact same question: Why? Why would the eight...
...reporters interviewed residents of the area, a Uighur woman with two children stumbled past sobbing. The woman said she was bereft over the disappearance of her husband. Soon after, a dozen Uighur women emerged from a market, marching down a four-lane road and chanting slogans. The journalists and cameras followed, and soon the protesters - mostly women and children but some men as well - swelled to about 300 as Foreign Ministry minders stood aside, watching helplessly...
...soon learn that James is nuts, but exactly the right kind of nuts for the job: ice-water nerves and a go-it-alone bravado to match his ninja expertise. Finding a string nearly buried in street rubble, he lifts it and finds it's attached to half a dozen bombs. Blithely he snaps a wire, making the devices harmless. Piece of cake, six slices...