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...least, outside of these particular ethics questions. In 2004, South Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk shot to fame after claims that his team had successfully extracted potentially disease-curing stem cells from a cloned human embryo. However, mere months later, Hwang's reputation dissolved after a Seoul National University panel concluded that much of his research was "intentionally fabricated." Hwang was accused of doctoring pictures of his supposed patient-specific stem-cell lines and was forced to resign. Though the controversy stunned South Korea, the nation resumed its cloning research, and in 2008 it unveiled seven Labrador retrievers, cloned from...
Awards are presented for four categories; Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry and Young People’s Literature and the winners are decided by a panel of five judges per category...
It’s a sign of the times that a panel on the financial crisis could draw 200 people to the Harvard Kennedy School in 25-degree weather. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz headlined a panel of financial experts in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday. He said that last weekend’s G20 summit was a welcome sight for the beleaguered global economy, even if it has yet to produce noticeable results. “It is very important that there was a G20 meeting, not G7, because the G7 [countries] are all bankrupt...
...When they return to testify after Thanksgiving, it is hoped that the three CEOs will have learned from their disastrous experience. At a contentious panel Wednesday in the House Banking Committee, all three, after being repeatedly reproached for flying separate corporate jets to Washington to beg for money, refused to pledge that they would fly home on commercial planes or sell the company jets. Two of the three - GM's Richard Wagoner and Ford's Alan Mulally, who last year made a combined $37.4 million - also refused to give up their annual salaries. All the while, the trio, rounded...
...power, Waxman and his talented staff churned out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports, blasting the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress on everything from faulty prewar intelligence to arsenic in drinking water. When the Democrats regained control of the House and he took over the chairmanship of that panel in 2006, the headline of a TIME profile of Waxman described him as "The Scariest Guy in Washington." His operation is so respected that Obama picked longtime Waxman chief of staff Phil Schiliro to head the White House's congressional-liaison office...