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...decide what price they would pay to make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose and punish violators with 10 years in jail and a $1 million fine. The alternative amendment, introduced by Republican Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious stem cells that can be derived from them. Shut that research down, argue the scientists, and the most promising frontier...
...lawmakers like Wu, who support embryonic-stem-cell research as long as it does not involve intentionally manufacturing embryos, this was an important place to draw the line. It's fine to pursue cloning technology with animals or adult DNA and tissue cultures, but not to create embryos for experimentation. Setting that limit might slow progress, but that might be a good thing if it gives everyone a chance to reflect on matters this complex. "This is not about the limits of human technology," Wu says. "It is about the limits of human wisdom...
...deflation is its worst nightmare. Deflation happens when people simply refuse to buy stuff, and any money that gets put into the economy by the central bank just sits there, unborrowed, uninvested, unspent. And there?s almost nothing a Greenspan can do about it, except wait. (Hey - he's fine. He invested in Treasurys in 2000 and beat the Street by a mile...
Ringo Starr has put out a new box set, George Harrison is alive and kicking, and PAUL MCCARTNEY is engaged--all in all a fine week for former Beatles. McCartney, 59, proposed to model and anti-land mine advocate HEATHER MILLS, 33, while vacationing in Britain's Lake District. She accepted; the couple will marry next year. "They would like to thank their relatives and friends for all the great support they have shown them since they met two years ago," said a McCartney spokesman, who added that McCartney proposed on one knee with a diamond-and-sapphire ring bought...
...those of St. Kitts and Nevis and other small, poor nations in its drive to repeal the IWC's 1986 ban on commercial whaling, delegates from 37 voting countries clashed bitterly over new sanctuaries, the culling of minke whales, the return of prodigal Iceland to the fold and numerous fine points of order and procedure. With its ally Norway playing the "good cop," Japan was the "bad cop" as the two whaling powers piled on the pressure. "IWC meetings have always been contentious, but it's getting worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International...