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...decided to proceed, but very carefully. By allowing federal funding for research only on stem cells that have already been harvested, he could argue that he was upholding his campaign promise not to promote research that requires destroying embryos. But Congress, science, Bush's own logic--or some combination of all three--could quickly overtake the President's decision. If the 65 Bush-approved stem-cell colonies aren't enough to find the limits of this new science, pressure to expand the research will be intense. By opening the door to research on cells derived from embryos in the past...
...would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious stem cells that can be derived from them. Shut that research down, argue the scientists, and the most promising frontier in medicine is suddenly off limits. Let it proceed, say opponents, and you have crossed a line toward the manufacture of humans as tools, and there is no going back...
Perhaps the Hudson. If the dredging announced last week goes ahead--no sure thing, since the program will proceed in stages and can be shut down if it doesn't yield the desired results--will the river get better? Dredging even a small patch of riverbed can be a messy job, one that could merely stir up buried PCBs. Proponents argue that the remaining PCBs in the river have to go, and that when they do, the risk of cancer they carry will vanish with them. The EPA's research is on the side of the greens, but only when...
...should foreign players make a dash for this market? China's PDA manufacturers are glad to weigh in with advice. "They will surely fail," says Sher. Less partisan observers offer this suggestion: come in, but proceed with care. A billion plus Chinese means a lot of appointments are being forgotten and phone numbers lost. Somebody has to get them organized...
...Rogers told the others. "This is replantable!" In 16 years of reattaching arms, it was the cleanest cut Rogers had ever seen. "You never get a shark bite like that," says De Campos. Still, the doctors debated for nearly an hour before Rogers made the call to proceed...