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Perhaps the best-known researcher attempting to defy the taboo on reproductive cloning is Severino Antinori, the maverick Italian gynecologist best known for helping a 62-year-old woman bear a child in 1994. Antinori, who dismisses his critics as "Taliban," told Time that reproductive cloning could help infertile couples and that he was "very, very close" to cloning a human baby...
...letter, 27 former fellows suggest that Radcliffe may be neglecting its commitment to gender issues and runs the risk of “stifling the maverick and reducing younger professionals to assistants or designated heirs...
...That does not give the President an absolute majority, but it does allow him to strike a deal to lure a few maverick KMT or independent politicians rather than engage in tedious and fragile coalition building, leaving the KMT totally out of the government. For the first time since Chiang Kai-shek's army fled to Taiwan, it seems likely politicians advocating unification with the mainland have been sidelined...
...hunters stalked their prey from the sky and in the shadows, armed with instruments of death and waiting for Osama bin Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that...
...away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles homed in on cave openings, destroying the labyrinths and their inhabitants...