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...inquiries are pouring in because some scientists are ever more willing to say yes, perhaps we can. Last month a well-known infertility specialist, Panayiotis Zavos of the University of Kentucky, announced that he and Italian researcher Severino Antinori, the man who almost seven years ago helped a 62-year-old woman give birth using donor eggs, were forming a consortium to produce the first human clone. Researchers in South Korea claim they have already created a cloned human embryo, though they destroyed it rather than implanting it in a surrogate mother to develop. Recent cover stories in Wired...
...decision she had to face often during the month-long Florida election controversy when Gerken, an election law specialist, became one of the most sought after political commentators in the country...
...What is pretty spectacular, on the other hand, are the seemingly boundless medical possibilities inherent in this discovery. If a cancer specialist can use this map to accelerate her search for the genetic anomaly that leads to breast cancer, we might find a cure - or a means of prevention. And if the root of a chronic illness lies buried in our DNA, the genome map could eventually lead us to a usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest...
...According to one estimate by Panitan Wattanayagorn, a regional security specialist, one-third of the arms flowing into the region is left over from Cambodia's decades of war. Another third consists of new weapons smuggled into Cambodia - and sometimes into Thailand through neighboring Laos - from China. The last third is from illegal sales by the Thai army, like the one I saw with...
...lives. But despite all that, there are few signs that it will be stopped, or even slowed. It's too lucrative for too many people. Take Thailand, for example. "After the collapse of military dictatorship in 1973," says Sungsidh Pirayarangsan, a professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and a specialist on the issue, "local godfathers, drug traffickers, traders of war weapons and others involved in illegal trade laundered themselves through the election process. Today, the contraband arms trade is able to survive because of political influence...