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...contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
...turns out the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., has been doing exactly that: taking volunteers' sperm and eggs to create a human embryo for the sole purpose of dismembering it for its mother lode of stem cells...
...July 11, it had been reported to fellow scientists back in October. Yet for nine months, stem-cell advocates have been repeating the "only discarded embryos" mantra. What did they know, and when did they know it? Second, and equally disturbing, is the stem-cell supporters' response to the Norfolk research. John Gearhart, one of the original stem-cell pioneers, told the New York Times that he was "perplexed" by this development because "we don't think it's necessary...
...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...
...containers for $2,500 each, making it cheaper for shippers to buy new ones in Asia than to ship the empties back. So colorful 40-ft. by 8-ft. by 10-ft. boxes are piling up like giant Lego blocks at U.S. waterfronts from Newark, N.J., above, to Norfolk, Va., to Los Angeles. People living near the port in L.A. want the city to build a berm that will block their view of the unsightly containers. Pleasure boaters are complaining too; the estimated 10,000 containers lost at sea each year lurk just below the surface and pose a hazard...