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...Last spring the National Academy of Sciences was more lenient: it affirmed the potential research value of mixing human and animal cells, but drew the line at seeding any primates with human cells-at least for now-and urged that new experiments at least first be run past an expert ethics board...
...been informally discussing, but they aren't likely to find an easy answer. The first problem, and one of the reasons some lawmakers have stopped short of putting pen to paper, is that "they still don't know what Bush is actually doing with this program," says one Congressional expert in bill drafting. Only a few top members of Congress have been briefed on the highly classified NSA program, and some of them have complained that those briefings have been frustratingly short on details. Congressional staffers well versed in the ways of the NSA suspect the agency is doing more...
...where are the crocodiles that were once resettled in Queensland? No one can be sure. N.T. rangers ended their relocation program in the early '90s after concluding the animals would eventually return home. Crocodile management expert Read says no animal relocated in Queensland has ever been caught again. According to Kofron's research, at least 20 of the 80 crocodiles captured in the state between 1999 and 2001 were relocated in North Queensland. Are these crocodiles too clever to be caught again? Have some of them made their way back to their old haunts? With some of these reptiles originally...
...showing the earthiness of her inspiration. Born in the Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin at his Mittagong pottery in the '50s, she became as expert as a geologist at analyzing the mineral contents of clay. Later, at the studios she set up in France and Tasmania, she was forever "digging and scrounging and carting and milling and sieving clays and rocks and ashes," Hanssen Pigott recalled. What she was looking to unearth were the means...
...recent decision to resume work on its uranium-enrichment program has heightened tensions with other countries. That's not a new situation, as we noted in an Aug. 17, 1987, cover story, "Iran vs. the World," which described that country's longtime confrontational stance. TIME quoted an Iranian expert who stated, "To be perceived as nonrevolutionary in Iran is the kiss of death." Read more at timearchive.com