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...finished fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.99 seconds. Taylor's time of 54.64 seconds from February had placed her 30th on the national performance lists. Taylor will be positioned much higher in the national rankings this spring in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles--her premier event in which she was an Olympic Trial semifinalist this summer...
Standing in Hall's way are the best players from the other three premier squash programs in the country. Penn's sophmore phenom Runa Reta is ranked third, Trinity freshman Amina Helal is No. 2, and Princeton junior Julia Beaver looks to defend her title as the top seed...
...fact, the risks involved with cloning mammals are so great that Wilmut, the premier cloner, calls it "criminally irresponsible" for scientists to be experimenting on humans today. Even after four years of practice with animal cloning, the failure rate is still overwhelming: 98% of embryos never implant or die off during gestation or soon after birth. Animals that survive can be nearly twice as big at birth as is normal, or have extra-large organs or heart trouble or poor immune systems. Dolly's "mother" was six years old when she was cloned. That may explain why Dolly's cells...
...While some Western officials have begun to recognize the more shocking aspects of the trade-and last week's initiative by Britain's Tony Blair and Italy's Premier Giuliano Amato to reinforce border checks in the Balkans is one of the more promising examples-the elusiveness of traffickers and the unwillingness of victims to testify have rendered most law enforcement efforts ineffective. Moreover, victims are still being blamed for allowing themselves to be seduced into the trade. Throughout Europe, police and prosecutors continue to view the trafficking of women as a permutation of unpleasant but ultimately intractable social ills...
...fact the risks involved with cloning mammals are so great that Wilmut, the premier cloner, calls it "criminally irresponsible" for scientists to be experimenting on humans today. Even after four years of practice with animal cloning, the failure rate is still overwhelming: 98% of embryos never implant or die off during gestation or soon after birth. Animals that survive can be nearly twice as big at birth as is normal, or have extra-large organs or heart trouble or poor immune systems. Dolly's "mother" was six years old when she was cloned. That may explain why Dolly's cells...