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...Olga's parents cremated the child before thinking of the cloning option. All that remains are their memories, some strands of hair and three baby teeth, so they have begun investigating whether the teeth could yield the nuclei to clone her one day. While it is theoretically possible to extract DNA from the teeth, scientists say it is extremely unlikely...
...early 1990s, John Daly, a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health, discovered that an extract from the skin of a tiny Ecuadorian tree frog was a potent pain killer, some 200 times more effective than morphine--at least in rats. The extract, known as epibatidine, is structurally and functionally similar to nicotine. It seems to prevent the nervous system from processing pain signals by interfering with nicotinic receptors in the brain...
...always considerable pressure on the Supreme Court, in very important cases, to rise above--or at least appear to rise above--political divisions. In Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case striking down racial segregation in public schools, Chief Justice Earl Warren worked mightily behind the scenes to extract a unanimous decision. When the Supreme Court first heard the Florida election dispute, it issued a ruling in a 9-0 vote vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision and directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. And when the Justices took...
About the only thing the Harvard men's hockey team failed to extract out of its trip to upstate New York this weekend was revenge...
...eccentric millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40% of the vote--and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially when the final prize might go to the candidate who came in second in the first round...