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...This is the part when I?m supposed to say SPOILER AHEAD, but if you haven?t seen it yet you probably wouldn?t be reading this. Given that this was a planet of apes, and not just Earth, the structural nut of the movie - that the genetically enhanced lab apes on Davidson?s ship rose up and took over - is solid enough. Nobody was ever going to top the Statue-of-Liberty-in-the-sand trick from the original; simply having little Pericles be the father of a new civilization would have been more than satisfactory, if not very...
Condit did comply with other requests. Shortly before dawn on Wednesday, he allowed police to search his apartment for more than three hours. Condit and Lowell were present as officers took folders and bags into an unmarked police vehicle; several items were sent to the FBI crime lab so that flecks of undetermined substances could be analyzed. Police with cadaver dogs also began searching nearby abandoned houses...
...other reassurance my side had been giving is that stem-cell research is not about cloning. A day after the news from Norfolk we learned that a laboratory in Worcester, Mass. (the very same lab that three years ago produced a hybrid human-cow embryo) is trying to grow cloned human embryos to produce stem cells--but could be used to produce a full or (even more ghastly) partial human clone. What other monstrosities are going on that we don't know about...
...Since a lab in Virginia has already created made-to-order embryos for stem-cell research, and another in Massachusetts is cloning embryos for the same purpose, it's hard not to wonder: Is federal money really necessary? No matter what Bush decides, stem-cell research is sure to continue. But federal funding would dramatically change the scope of this research, widening the circle of scientists involved and most likely accelerating the rate at which cures are found...
...floodgates would open. Right now most scientists steer clear of stem-cell research because they have to: if any part of their lab receives federal money (and most do), they can't touch this research. If that changes, hundreds of labs across the country, including medical powerhouses like those at Harvard and M.I.T., would probably begin work on stem cells. Scientists would be able to share findings freely and review one another's conclusions. The government could choose to regulate how embryos are cultivated, handled and ultimately destroyed. Treatments would probably come sooner. Of course, there are no guarantees...