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...Even as scientists??press ahead with embryo research, exciting news has come from the least controversial sources: the stem cells in umbilical-cord blood and placentas, and even in fully formed adult organs. While not as flexible as embryonic cells, cord and placental cells have proved more valuable than scientists initially hoped. Although about 90% of cord-blood stem cells are precursors for blood and immune cells, the remaining 10% give rise to liver, heart-muscle and brain cells and more. Over the past five years, cord-blood transplants have become an increasingly popular alternative to bone-marrow transplants...
...obscure British couple and the abstruse subject of embryology shouldered aside items about the Middle East, international trade balances and inflation. Some commentators heralded the coming birth as a miracle of modern medicine, comparable to the first kidney and heart transplants. Theologians?and more than a few prominent scientists???sounded warnings about its disturbing moral, ethical and social implications. Others, made wary by the recent cloning hoax, remained unconvinced that the child about to be born was indeed the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...
Sociobiologists?whose growing ranks include some 250 biologists, zoologists and social scientists???argue that without consideration of biology, the study of human culture makes no sense. Indeed, sociobiology has significant implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches...
...simply grouped in a single department with no loss of staff. Carter also introduced "zero-based budgeting." Every state department had to justify its entire budget request, and not just the increase over the year before. The new system is still being tested, and it has flaws. But political scientists???and even some of his enemies?concede that Carter made substantial improvements, cut the flow of paper and reduced the rate of growth in state costs...
...September, for example, dozens of eminent scientists???including two Nobel laureates?gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Soviet Armenia under the auspices of the Soviet and U.S. Academies of Science to ponder a mind-boggling proposition: Should man try to monitor the messages of other worlds? The answer was a resounding yes. Russian, U.S., Czech. Hungarian and British delegates united to support an unusually cooperative proposal: "It seems to us appropriate that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should be made by representatives of the whole of mankind...