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...Bush is standing pat with his $300 tax rebate checks, which are still making their way into mailboxes, and will try to mix sympathy for the present with a hearty confidence about the future. "Tax relief was the right thing to do, at the right time," Bush told some union workers on Labor Day. "Even though people are hurting today, and I know they are?I'm confident that we'll recover...
...case the play isn't enough to captivate viewers--although with their mix of power and finesse, it should be--there's plenty of drama to go around. Besides the marked Williams sisters, there's No. 1-ranked Martina Hingis, who has morphed from the adorable Swiss miss into the tour's trash-talking queen; Jennifer Capriati, the seemingly washed-up teen prodigy turned fitness monster and this year's dominant player; Lindsay Davenport, a California redwood, who squeezed her high school prom in around the tour and now fires shots at the other players from the safety...
Adding some color to the mix hasn't been smooth. Just ask the Williams sisters' father Richard. Actually, don't bother asking. Just stand within shouting distance of him, or listen to the outgoing message on his cell phone, on which he is always angry about something, usually race. Serena says their only friends on the tour are Chanda Rubin and Alexandra Stevenson, the only other black women near the top 100. The other players, who admittedly don't like one another's white butts either, find the Williamses off-putting. And many think they play the race card when...
...economy may be close to the bottom, but it's still not the time to be taking a lot of chances. So stick with some fixed-income securities, keep a balanced mix of equities--and add a dose of patience...
What the Duke researchers showed is that one gene, called IGF2R, which helps brake growth, is normally imprinted in sheep, cows and mice but not in humans. Human clones would always inherit nonimprinted IGF2R genes, so there would be no chance of a mix-up and, at least in this respect, their growth would be normal. But what of the other 49 or so imprinted genes? No one knows what trouble they might cause. So the fact that humans have one less imprinted gene than mice, sheep or cows means that human cloning might be marginally easier, but not necessarily...