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...older "come from the land," says Margaret Karembu, director of the Nairobi office of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. "Our lives really revolved around the village and food production. We know what it means to have to collect water, to have to harvest all day. When you have more women like that being exposed to technology, it helps because they are more likely to work on ways to help their sisters back in the village...
...Republican Senators were challenging the President's narrow tribunal plan, pushing for something that looks and feels more like a genuine legal process. As to a court date for that "judicial process," which officially started last week? Unless the White House decides there's political capital to harvest and wants to move fast, think January ... 2009. Next Administration...
...wonderful consistency (and particularly smooth tannins to Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot). Due to its position in the Hauraki Gulf, the island also experiences a warmer climate than Auckland, lengthening the critical ripening season. Then there's simple luck: Waiheke experienced exceptionally sunny weather from January 2005 through till harvest. "Abundant sunshine and the virtual absence of rainfall translated into small, thick-skinned berries, concentrated flavors and significant, ripe tannins," says Tony Forsyth, owner of Te Whau Vineyard and the current chair of the Waiheke Winegrowers Association. Tasting notes are still not conclusive, given that many of the 2005 wines...
...have demonstrated, for the first time, that human embryonic stem cells can be generated without interfering with the embryo's potential for life." --ROBERT LANZA, leader of a team that has developed a method to harvest and grow human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryos. Scientists and politicians say questions about viability and ethics remain...
...break with the President and build a compromise package with something for everyone to like. One bill increases funding to explore sources of stem cells other than embryos, such as umbilical-cord blood. Another proposal outlaws trade in tissue produced by "fetus farming," pregnancies that are aborted specifically to harvest the tissue for research. ("As far as I am aware," Frist admitted when he announced the bill, "this is not a method currently employed. But it is not out of the realm of possibility.") The part that inspired the promise of Bush's first veto was House Resolution 810, which...