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...studies involving immature eggs, surely the most controversial--and, to some ethicists, downright repugnant--is the work on ovarian tissue. Researchers have been performing experiments aimed ultimately at transplanting such tissue from fetuses--either aborted or miscarried--into infertile women. Fetal tissue is a rich source of eggs. A five-month fetus has cells that can produce about 7 million eggs, in contrast to the mere 400,000 or so that survive to a woman's puberty. Researchers have suggested using this tissue to establish egg banks for infertile women, who could then give birth to children...
...sealed the West Bank after a drive-by attack killed two Israeli civilians near the village of Tirosh early Friday. The closure prevents Palestinians from entering Israel for work and restricts the import and export of goods. Israel had reopened the West Bank only three days before after a five-month closure spurred by suicide attacks in Israel last winter. "The feeling in the air here is that people were waiting for the next attack Scot Woods
...took 16 years for them to be friends. But last Thursday, when Senator John McCain eulogized a former enemy, David Ifshin, who died at age 47 after a five-month battle with cancer, the two had long made their "peace together." McCain may be our most famous prisoner of the Vietnam War; Ifshin, the most famous protester to go to Hanoi (save Jane Fonda). Ifshin's antiwar sentiments were piped into McCain's cell repeatedly via Radio Hanoi. McCain, who was left hanging by his broken arms for hours a day, shriveled to less than 100 lbs. during his five...
Following a five-month long search, Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy and his wife Susan have been chosen to serve as the new masters of Pforzheimer House...
...York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken the back of this ring," said Queens assistant district attorney Michael Mansfield...