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...opponents of cloning aren't feeling particularly calm - the Roman Catholic Church joined in a somewhat unlikely alliance with biomedical researchers and medical ethicists in voicing fierce aversion to the scientists' plans. "Those who made the atom bomb went ahead in spite of knowing about its terrible destruction," Bishop Elio Sgreccia, head of the John Paul II Institute for Bioethics, told Reuters Friday. "But this doesn't mean that it was the best choice for humanity...
...Last month 13 consumer groups jointly denounced the "bank saver" decree, which would have cost lenders only about $1.2 billion. "We will take the government to court over this," says Elio Lannutti, chairman of Adusbef, one of the most aggressive consumer groups. "Banks must give back the money, and it must be clear they broke the law." Lannutti argues that Fazio is overstating the cost of returning cash to borrowers, dismissing the $24 billion figure as "psychological terrorism...
...White March was a cathartic moment for a badly troubled society, but the respite from dismaying news ended last week. This time a popular and telegenic Deputy Prime Minister who is gay, Elio Di Rupo, 45, was accused by local prosecutors--who petitioned Parliament to lift his official immunity so he could be formally charged--of having sex with underage boys. At the same time, similar charges were leveled against Jean-Pierre Grafe, 64, a regional minister who is also homosexual. Both men denied the accusations. The case of Di Rupo, a key insider, could lead to the breakup...
VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: NATO troops fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
...Elio Raviols, professor of neuroanatomy, said interest in neuroscience is growing dramatically, as evidenced by the Goldenson gift and the possibility of cresting a new concentration in the neurosciences at the College...