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...Despite aggressive legislation from Minority Leader Trent Lott, the Senate has declined to schedule a vote on a six-month moratorium on cloning into this year's docket (which was enthusiastically endorsed in the House pre-9/11). Apparently they prefer to wait until 2002 - when presumably everyone will have more time to debate the intellectually demanding subject matter. On the stem cell front, efforts of anti-abortion activists were also stymied by the terror attacks, when their congressional allies were forced to sideline challenges to President Bush's announcement that he will allow limited stem cell research...
...coaches,” Lee said. “It was more of a personal decision. I just didn’t feel happy—the atmosphere wasn’t for me. Basically, the Crimson style of play is not my style of play. I prefer to be less confined to a system. I like to free-reign, more pick-up style basketball...
That ban doesn't affect ACT, which is privately funded, but stem cells from aborted fetuses are problematic in any case. Like any foreign tissue, they can trigger rejection; ideally, doctors would prefer to get stem cells from a patient's own body. The most direct way to do that is through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method...
While most frontcourt players might prefer a half-court game where the ball is pounded into the post, junior forward Sam Winter says he welcomes the guard-first mentality...
...never been very comfortable with that kind of uncertainty. I prefer to be in control. When I arrived at Harvard five and a half years ago, I was a seventeen-year-old brat who thought she had it all figured out. I believed if I could micromanage one aspect of my life, or maybe two, everything else would fall into place. I would suddenly have everything I ever wanted. The unfortunate part of my strategy was that I didn’t have a clue what ‘everything I ever wanted’ was. Not one single aspect...