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...stem cells, and that has the scientific community worried. In order to maximize the medical payoff from stem-cell research, researchers prefer to work with the most robust population of cell lines possible. No one knows, after all, if some lines are more viable than others and if some lend themselves to many uses while others to only a few. If too many of the lines dead-end or die off, research could stagnate. "Some stem-cell uses," says Krause, "will require diversity greater than 60 cell lines...
...even Bingham admits the DMCA may have "trampled on" a very important part of copyright law: fair use. You have the right to lend or copy parts of any paper-and-glue book you own, but you can't do the same with an e-book without the express permission of the publisher. This is one reason, e-book veterans say, that the industry has been slow to take off. Reading on a screen is a hassle anyway; why put up with all the extra legal barriers...
...advocates--the voters that Democrats will need to defeat Morella. There's talk of a Solomonic solution: redistricting Montgomery County into two so that Van Hollen can run in the heavily Democratic parts and Shriver can vie with Morella for the rest. If that doesn't happen, Kathleen could lend a hand by tapping Van Hollen for the second spot on her ticket. It helps to have friends--and especially family--in the right places...
...right. Publishing companies are licking their lips at all the potential opportunities to make you pay for copyrighted collections of 26 characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...
...deliberately make itself unreadable at a given moment - no matter the reason - will have a disturbing, Farenheit 451-ish quality to it. Luckily, there's still an invention that will let you read the same book at no charge for two or three weeks, during which time you can lend it to as many friends and copy down as many passages as you wish: the public library. But how long such a quaintly uncommercial institution survives is entirely up to you, dear reader...