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...what is shaping up as one of the greatest black-gold rushes in a generation comes with a few big catches. First, billions of dollars will be required to repair Iraqi oil installations hobbled by more than a decade of neglect. And that's assuming Saddam doesn't torch and otherwise sabotage the wells, as he did in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War. Tens of billions more will be needed to then develop Iraq's vast untapped oil fields...
...seem. He blamed this partly on media hype, partly on ?lousy science? and partly on political pressures - notably the Bush administration?s decision to sharply limit the availability of human embryonic stem cells. Still, he cited a number of promising recent experiments in which stem cells were used to repair damaged tissue in animals; for example, he showed a video of a partially paralyzed rat that appears to miraculously regain mobility after an implantation of neural stem cells. But Gearhart emphasized that lab animals are not humans and predicted that it would take from seven to ten years before such...
...moderate who has been very impressed with Bush's strides in national security and the economy. This tax-cut-stimulus package is the right move to repair consumer confidence. The President is more concerned with long-term, substantial progress than with quick fixes that will make him look good on Election Day. Democrats claim that his plan helps the rich, but child-tax credits, the marriage-penalty reduction and that $300 rebate check will hardly do much for Bill Gates. I think liberals are shooting themselves in the foot. ROBERT MOON Cincinnati, Ohio...
...institute is a remnant of the Soviet sports system as adapted by the People's Republic of China. A year ago Yao Ming was living in Room 305. At this very moment, in the little restaurants and motorbike repair shops just outside the gates of the institute, his proud and excited countrymen squat in front of televisions and watch him battle the overmatched Minnesota Timberwolves half a world away. Yao's NBA debut on Oct. 30 was reported to have been seen in 287 million households in China...
...Cambodia may have been stung worse. Only lately has the long-suffering nation achieved a measure of stability. Now its international image is again tarnished and its hopes of a tourism-led economic revival dashed. Hun Sen has hastily assembled three committees to repair relations with Thailand, evaluate the damage done to the Thai embassy and estimate the financial losses of the Thai population living in Cambodia. He has also started rounding up "extremists," and his chief spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, has apologized for the government's inability to contain the riots. "We didn't think it would become anarchy," says...