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Starting Tuesday, all U.S. stem-cell researchers must follow the NIH guidelines in creating new stem-cell lines in order to receive federal support. For all lines created before Tuesday, researchers may now receive federal funds if the creation of their stem-cell lines adhered to the spirit, if not the letter, of the new regulations...
Malpartida, however, is a new kind of pioneer. She is becoming an inspiration to both young men and women who want to follow in her footsteps. One young amateur boxer, Rocio Gaspar, calls herself "Kinita" or "Little Kina" fought on the undercard on Malpartida's fight night and won her three-round bout. Meanwhile, Jonathan Maicelo, Peru's rising male boxing star, who was also on the undercard, says Malpartida might be the best thing that ever happened to the country's boxing. He told reporters, after defeating Mexico's Javier Gallegos, that Malpartida's fame might get local sporting...
...What Europe should do is follow the U.S. method of banning all airlines from countries whose civil aviation officials don't enforce international security standards," Hubert argues. "Targeting individual carriers is often overly subjective, and inefficient in remedying the original problem of insufficient oversight by national aviation authorities." The E.U. blacklist already effectively bans all airlines from nations such as Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Croatia and Paraguay, in addition to individual carriers from countries whose safety oversights the E.U. considers sound. Even that, though, can't prevent disaster from striking some of the largest and most reputable airlines...
...more difficult to blacklist Sinopec," says Yousni. "This is China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, not some small oil company," he says. Having dared to take on Baghdad, China has increased the Kurds' ability to become an autonomous economic power, and perhaps allowed other companies to follow suit. "The Chevrons and Exxons of this world can now do the same, and go into Kurdish fields." For now, some may see that as a safer bet than the riches on offer, at a steeper price and risk, further south...
...hotel's seaside café. Little kids swarm over the slide and jungle gym in the corner while their parents relax with a fresh strawberry shake and a puff from a water pipe. At twilight, a wistful silence passes over the cafégoers as their eyes follow the sun on its westward passage to lands that they, as Palestinians trapped inside Gaza, can never hope to visit until Israel lifts its blockade...