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...Stem Cells: The Hope and The Hype" [Aug. 7] mischaracterized altered nuclear transfer (ANT), a project with which I am associated, as an approach that involves the use of an embryo that dies. ANT produces cells that have the same power and potential as embryonic stem cells but that do not have the same essential properties of the fertilized embryo. So ANT neither creates nor destroys human embryos. Further exploration of this project has been endorsed by leading moral philosophers and religious authorities as well as the President's Council on Bioethics...
...says. He quotes the "abundant life" verse with all earnestness, even giving it a real estate gloss: "It is unscriptural not to own land," he announces. But he's doing more than talk about it. He recently oversaw the building of Corinthian Pointe, a 452-unit affordable-housing project that he claims is the largest residential subdivision ever built by a nonprofit. Most of its inhabitants, he says, are not members of his church...
...troops that have until now been largely focused on hunting al-Qaeda are turning toward nation building. Not a week goes by without the launch of a new school, road, medical clinic or water project, but those successes are overshadowed by reports of schools burning and teachers being assassinated...
...journalists retracing Marco Polo's steps. The fact that I was reading this issue while going on my own personal quest through Istanbul - a part of Marco Polo's voyage - and Turkey's interior made the reading an even more pleasurable experience. Congratulations to the entire team behind this project; you have outdone yourselves. Shruti Bajpai Gurgaon, India Segway Seeks to Conquer I agree that the Segway is a technological marvel, but its developers are missing the point entirely when analyzing its poor market penetration [Aug. 21]. The perspective from here in Middle America is that their product is nothing...
...effects of legalized segregation have been remedied? Recent studies indicate that schools in many communities are growing more segregated. Just 50% of blacks earn a regular high school diploma, compared with 74% of whites, according to research by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Urban Institute. Brown was decided more than 50 years ago, but cities like Louisville and Boston were still rioting over busing plans in the 1970s. And is two generations really long enough to counteract 300 prior years of institutionalized inequity...