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...become a superpower: stem-cell research. And who might be? Britain. Last week the country's Medical Research Council (MRC) unveiled plans for the U.K. Stem Cell Bank in Hertfordshire - the world's first for storing and supplying tissue from human embryos and aborted fetuses to be used to repair diseased and damaged parts of the body. The announcement came at a London conference of 400 scientists, government officials and patient lobby groups from 10 countries. "What was interesting was that they all said we are ahead of them," said Professor George Radda, head of the MRC, Britain's equivalent...
...specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid to repair a run-down public pool in the London neighborhood of Brixton and tile the bottom with its brand name--a message that was hard to miss for passengers flying in and out of nearby Heathrow Airport...
...happening through a combination of faith, hope and desperation. At the beginning of Khoshal Khan A, Abdil Jalil, 55, pulls water from a well, dumps it on a pile of dirt, and molds mud to make a poor man's unfired bricks. His auto repair shop was looted during the civil war and then expropriated by the Taliban. Now he's selling 1,000 bricks for less than $8, working with a team of friends?but still unable at times to meet the demand...
...policy to work, the locals have to cooperate as Hu did. Some refuse. They pocket the government's money, but leave the pumps running and continue planting in the flood plain. When the government breaches a dike, villagers sometimes repair it so they can continue sowing. "These lands are only half restored," says Yu Xiubo of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences. But the program is still new. "It takes time," says Jim Harkness, China director for WWF, "for people to lose their nervousness at giving up rice farming." China may have helped create the flood problem that plagues...
...nowhere to be found, dominating a nation while squatting in a chair half a planet away. But the Ichiro paradox cuts most deeply across the game he left behind. Ichiro has given Japanese baseball new life, yet by the time he's done, it may be crippled beyond repair...