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...EASTERN EGG ROCK, MAINE Decoys help lure puffins back to island KABUL Afghanistan's opium harvest...
Kong Junying, a 50-year-old housewife, stood seething at the entrance of a supermarket in northeastern Beijing with a salted egg in hand. Kong, her husband and 18-year-old son live on just 2,000 renminbi ($260) a month, and over the first half of this year, she has seen the price of groceries take a bigger and bigger chunk of the couple's fixed income. What was a 300 renminbi ($40) monthly bill is now 500 renminbi ($66) and prices are still rising. Hence the salted egg, which Kong is buying instead of meat. "We are still...
...Flögels and El Bulli's 48 other customers that July night, the result of all that investigation and inspiration took the form of spherified olives that, when put in the mouth, exploded with a gush of intensely flavored olive oil. The liquid yolk of a quail's egg came wrapped in a hard, burnished shell tasting of candy. Citrus pulp turned into a tangy risotto...
Michael A. Fumento, a prominent conservative commentator on health and science issues, said he agreed that some people who were very religious might still see parthenogenesis as “tampering” with human life, but he said that eliminating the fertilized egg from the process might convince some that this stem cell research could be justified...
While those who object to stem cell research on moral grounds may be assuaged by the fact that parthenogenesis does not involve a fertilized egg, Scadden said that it would still likely face scrutiny...