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...softball team. Embryos can be bought and sold and cloned and even implanted in a monkey's womb because this is the most private of industries, a $4 billion business that largely polices itself. Liberals worry about egg selling and womb rental, about poor women being exploited to help rich women have children--but they don't want to push too hard, because reproductive freedom is a hallowed right. Conservatives struggle to explain why they oppose using leftover frozen embryos for stem-cell research but don't oppose their creation in the first place...
...long last look at its statue of a goddess from the 5th century B.C. Scholars are divided over just which goddess she represents, but whoever she is, at 7.5 ft. (2.3 m) tall, she's a formidable woman, one of the most powerful works in the Getty's rich collection...
...680 million in 2002 to $9.2 billion in the first nine months of 2007, placing it as one of the top-three diversified mining and metals firms in the world. The industry has become blast-furnace hot: witness BHP Billiton's hostile $147.4 billion bid for iron-ore-rich Rio Tinto Group...
...world's oil supplies was an explosion on Monday at a refinery in Big Spring, Texas, which halted its 67,000-barrel-a-day output, and could shut the facilty for two months. And even before then a bitter wrangle between Venezuela's oil officials and ExxonMobil over a rich oil field, as well as rebel action in the Niger Delta, had raised fears that oil supplies could be seriously interrupted...
Wait a minute. $25? Al-Naimi said that in April 2003 - less than five years ago - when a barrel of oil cost one-quarter of this week's whopping $100, and when prices were regarded as high enough to keep oil-rich countries happy. Which brings up the question: How long will the price of oil remain sky-high...