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...cell scientist Roger Pederson, which will set aside $45 million for research in the field over the next three years. Money also comes from university grants and offshore organizations like the U.S.-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The diabetes group has helped fund biotech start-up ES Cell International (ESI), home to Briton--and now Singapore resident--Alan Colman, who was part of the British team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. ESI manufactures its own embryonic-stem-cell lines and is working on shaping those cells into insulin-producing pancreatic tissue and cardiac muscle, which could be given...
...clear water, pristine surroundings - it's what every green-minded tourist dreams of. But how can you know for sure whether your potential holiday destination is kind to Mother Nature? Check out the Environmental Sustainability Index (www.yale.edu/esi) compiled by environmental experts at Yale and Columbia universities. The 2005 ESI ranks 146 countries based on 76 measures, such as forest cover and vehicle usage, and is grouped into 21 environmental indicators, such as biodiversity and air quality. This year, Finland and Norway rank first and second, respectively: "They've put a great deal of time, energy and money into protecting...
...education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, asserts, "The message is loud and clear. It reinforces the 1857 Dred Scott dictum that no black man has any rights that a white man is bound to respect. African-American males feel it is open season." Not only males, either. Akos Esi, 36, a professional nurse who has immigrated from Ghana to New York City's Harlem, says, "I think it's a message white America is sending, that you can do anything to a black person, even with evidence against you, and get away with it." She vows to tell...
...Glasser '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Andrew D. Cohen '92 Ross G. Forman '90 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editor: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Editorial Editor: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Photography Editor: Zachary M. Schrag '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne Copy Editor: Esi M. Morgan...
...communications system that would be involved in a nuclear war was a success. Too much of a success. As soon as Pentagon officials read the report, which had been commissioned by Congress's Office of Technology Assessment, they upgraded it to a supersecret clearance level known as siop-esi (Single Integrated Operation Plan--Extremely Sensitive Information). Only the President and a few top Defense officials are now permitted to see the paper. The classification is so restricted that even Author Blair, who is cleared for top-secret material, is not permitted to read what he wrote...
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