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...more appropriately termed therapeutic nuclear transfer, carries enormous potential for alleviating dreaded human diseases. There is a very clear line between this research and what Krauthammer terms the inevitable next step: implanting such a blastocyst into a human womb. There is no reason to believe that this will necessarily occur. But even if such a procedure might eventually be performed in some renegade scientist's lab, should that be reason enough to bring this promising research to a halt? I say no, do not stand in the way of medical progress. GILBERT ROSS, M.D., MEDICAL DIRECTOR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL...
...many developed countries, including the U.S. have seen people live symptom-free for years with an HIV-positive diagnosis. As a result, many are not particularly worried about HIV and AIDS. Rates of youth infection are skyrocketing; the UN estimates as many as half of all new infections occur in young people aged...
...exactly, did WorldCom cook its books? By treating routine expenses as capital investments. Normal operating expenses must be subtracted from a company's revenues in the year they occur. But capital expenditures can be subtracted from revenues a little at a time over many years. In the short term, that lets money flow to the bottom line and boosts financial results. It's the oldest trick in the book, and mind-numbingly simple. Dennis Beresford teaches Accounting 101 at the University of Georgia and says what happened at WorldCom is "plain vanilla" trickery that he covers on the second...
...addition, all Ivy league sports teams must set aside seven weeks during the academic year in which neither required athletic activities nor coach-supervised voluntary activities occur...
...distributors and theaters are violating the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Studios should supply theaters with open-captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd's attorneys say. The studios' complaint against open captioning has been that it will annoy hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th Century Fox and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner...