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...announcement Thursday that "we will withdraw from the ABM treaty on our timetable at a time convenient to America," will not be welcomed by either the Russians or most NATO allies. It?s hardly surprising, considering that when it comes to pinpointing a guarantor of global stability, most countries prefer a treaty to a defensive weapons system...
...other areas of research, however, the door hasn't been closed to latecomers the way it has with stem cells, and that has the scientific community worried. In order to maximize the medical payoff from stem-cell research, researchers prefer to work with the most robust population of cell lines possible. No one knows, after all, if some lines are more viable than others and if some lend themselves to many uses while others to only a few. If too many of the lines dead-end or die off, research could stagnate. "Some stem-cell uses," says Krause, "will require...
...economy by attracting Chinese investment. The nation's free-trade zones are dotted with apparel factories run by Chinese overlords and staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to Chinese workers who construct everything from new roads to button-down shirts. Chinese factory owners prefer to ship in their own countrymen because, as one boss put it: "They work harder for less money." Miss Xu hails from Nanjing, the river port from which Zheng He launched his fleet. She signed up for a three-year stint in Madagascar without knowing a thing about the Indian...
...String theory certainly has the potential to do what Einstein couldn?t - happily unify the subatomic and Newtonian worlds - and he?d probably prefer it to a universe explained by quantum theory. Einstein hated the idea of God playing dice with the universe - a God that played violin would have been much more to his liking...
...Kenyan model Bidanya Barassa, 23, a 1998 finalist in the Face of Africa pageant, a beauty contest run by the South African TV company M-Net that showcases African models of all shades. Barassa says she has lost out in other pageants and for jobs because judges or clients prefer lighter-skinned models. She didn't mind too much, she says, because she knows she has the qualities of a good model. In time, perhaps other Africans will come to recognize that black is beautiful...