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...study, given to the White House Tuesday and presented Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing, was commissioned by President Bush, who is currently debating whether to extend federal research dollars to stem cell studies. The NIH researchers did not go so far as to make a recommendation, but it did emphasize the importance of keeping all avenues of inquiry, including studies using both adult and embryonic stem cells, open to scientists...
...within as few as five years, sun, rain, termites and fungus can reduce it to pulp. That's why builders were so enthusiastic in the 1970s when the lumber industry introduced pressure-treated boards--ordinary planks and posts injected with an extraordinary preservative known as CCA that can extend the life of wood fivefold, eliminating repairs and saving millions of trees annually. What got less attention at the time is the fact that CCA stands for chromated copper arsenate--a form of arsenic. And that's turned out to be a problem...
...time lifetime exclusion for capital gains on housing. Financially speaking, moving didn't make as much sense. Now you can get an exclusion every two years. Swarms of homeowners with a collective $4.5 trillion in home equity in the U.S. are bumping up against the new limits. To extend the tax benefit, they must somehow reset the tax-exempt meter to zero, usually by selling their home and buying another...
...Whatever our capacities are as a University, they do not really extend to great sophistication to running energy plants in a highly deregulated environment,” said then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine in a 1998 interview...
True, the American writ does not extend everywhere. The dictators of Iraq, Burma and North Korea, for example, are beyond its reach. But within the Western sphere, surely, there is no hiding from American power. Those who run afoul of it are not imprisoned on Elba or St. Helena; they are jailed in Miami (Manuel Noriega) or in more cosmopolitan quarters in the Netherlands...