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...contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
...capture an embryonic stem cell, scientists must find an embryo, or blastocyst (from umbilical cord tissue, a frozen sample from a fertility clinic, an aborted fetus, or, most controversially, from a cloned specimen) ideally a few days after fertilization. Researchers then extract stem cells from the blastocyst, and, they hope, use those blank slates to create new, potentially curative, cells...
...side had responded to the Mitchell Report and other mediation initiatives principally as a means of outflanking its adversary in the battle for international public opinion. But the cease-fire they concluded existed in name only - in practice there was a policy of restraint by both sides designed to extract maximum diplomatic advantage, but little evidence that either side is anticipating a resumption of the peace process any time soon...
...Roma in particular, despite owning 9.5% of Mediobanca, clearly isn't on the team anymore; it's lined up with Fiat in the Montedison bid. Cuccia's death at 92 a year ago - followed by a grotesque episode in which his corpse was stolen in a failed attempt to extract ransom - may have weakened the bank's backroom clout. Mediobanca managing director Vincenzo Maranghi, whatever his virtues, hasn't acquired his late boss's godlike mystique. Enter the French. In May, the state electric utility Electricité de France (EDF) picked up 20% of the shares in Montedison. That position...
...Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was duped into thinking he could wipe out the national debt by unearthing lost World War II treasure in a muddy cave near the Burmese border. So who can blame Thailand's 700,000 AIDS patients for putting their faith in such cures as bitter melon extract (at one point certified by government officials), magic herbs and an elixir called Love Dharma, concocted from sticky rice and herbs...