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...Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public...
...measure cognitive ability are very sensitive. Any one of us could "fail" such an exam and still not notice a great difference in our daily life. In addition, this is a preliminary study that lacked a control or comparison group. "I think there's something to this," says Dr. Patrick McCarthy, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. But he is quick to add that it's not at all clear how much of the decline is due to the bypass and how much to aging...
Strong may be an understatement for the way the Crimson competed on Saturday. In the first match of the day, sophomore Patrick O'Donnell faced the tough task of taking on Cornell's Clint Wattenberg, ranked No. 1 in the EIWA 165-pound weight class. O'Donnell pulled off an exciting 3-2 decision over Wattenburg...
...Vinod Trivedi, 52, an insurance worker in Ahmedabad: "Not even the Municipal Corporation has bothered to come. All of our work has been done without the help of heavy machinery." One exhausted volunteer from Mumbai said, "Some things even the human spirit cannot move with just two hands." Predicted Patrick Fuller from the International Federation of the Red Cross, "The chances of people coming out alive after the first 48 hours are fairly slim...
...Tres Hombres, a cantina in the heart of Woodland Park, four of the men--Randy Halprin, Donald Newbury, Patrick Murphy Jr. and "Brother Jim"--were just starting to become regulars. "Just regular guys," says bartender Pam Smith. She remembers Michael Rodriguez--who had hired a hit man to kill his wife for $400,000 in insurance money--as being "real nice." He came in for lunch. Smith and her boss Darby Howard remember their tattoos--and, in alleged ringleader George Rivas' case, a fresh-orange hairdo. But Tres Hombres sees lots of people with mohawks and piercings. The Gang...