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On the future of cloning: "After repairing diseased organs, they will want to produce them, then create replacement bodies. First they will produce lineages of stem cells without destroying the embryo, which will make genetic therapy ethically acceptable, and then reproductive cloning. Finally they will manufacture the human being like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the World Will Look Like by 2050 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Still, Beijing has won big playing this game before. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, China refused to devalue the yuan, which helped prevent a further run by speculators on Asian currencies. All the while, Beijing reminded other Asian governments of how the West had failed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How China Is Capitalizing on the Economic Crisis | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Two major Harvard teaching hospitals announced Friday that they have adopted an extensive conflict of interest policy, culminating a two-year assessment of hospital ties to the pharmaceutical industry. After over a year of controversy, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will now prohibit doctors from...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hospitals Adopt Stricter Policies | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Although CDSs work like insurance for investments, buying and selling them is similar to trading stocks. This generates a hazardous web of firms that hedged bets by both buying and selling CDSs. If one firm defaults, it cannot pay out the next firm’s insurance that can cause...

Author: By George Hayward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Regulating Credit Default Swaps | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

Yet when pressed for reasons why they should remain in Ashraf, given that they are not Iraqis and the new regime doesn't want them, Saffari, Madani and several other MEK leaders as well as a number of residents, all bring up fervent, personal feelings. "We are not talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

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