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...field where emotions run so strong and hope runs so deep is fertile ground for profiteers and charlatans. In her effort to clone her daughter Olga, Tanya Tomusyak contacted an Australian firm, Southern Cross Genetics, which was founded three years ago by entrepreneur Graeme Sloan to preserve DNA for future cloning. In an e-mail, Sloan told the parents that Olga's teeth would provide more than enough DNA--even though that possibility is remote. "All DNA samples are placed into computer-controlled liquid-nitrogen tanks for long-term storage," he wrote. "The cost of doing a DNA fingerprint...
When contacted by TIME, Sloan admitted, "I don't have a scientific background. I'm pure business. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't here to make a dollar out of it. But I would like to see organ cloning become a reality." He was inspired to launch the business, he says, after a young cousin died of leukemia. "There's megadollars involved, and everyone is racing to be the first," he says. As for his own slice of the pie, Sloan says he just sold his firm to a French company, which he refuses to name...
...Chuck Schumer wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...
Kennedy represents the majority of people who take time off owing to chronic illness and return--willingly--to the job market. According to Karrie Zampini, director of postcancer treatment services at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, 80% of cancer survivors go back to work. But when they do, they bring with them a very different set of needs and concerns that employers must understand...
...employees a seminar on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. The forum helps people understand the intricacies of the law and informs them in advance, rather than in the thick of a crisis situation. "Remember what work represents to people," says Sloan-Kettering's Zampini. "It's mastery and control over one's life. Work brings an enormous sense of personal fulfillment and self-worth." And productive workers--even those with chronic illnesses--more often than not give back with interest...