Word: splits
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That is certainly the least controversial of the technology's potential applications. In the TIME/CNN poll, Americans were evenly split on whether they approved or disapproved of cloning for this purpose. If it works -- and that is still a big if -- it could probably find a market among infertility patients who have tried everything else. "It's pretty scary," said Barbara Tilden, a 39-year-old Illinois woman who has gone through eight different infertility treatments in the past 10 years. "But I'd probably consider it as a desperate last attempt...
...science or medicine any favors," said Dr. Marilyn Monk, a researcher at London's Institute of Child Health. Dr. Leeanda Wilton, director of embryology at Australia's Monash IVF Center, where much of the in-vitro fertilization technology was developed, said there were hundreds of scientists who could have split an embryo in half, just the way Hall and Stillman did. "They haven't done so because it opens a can of worms," she said...
...unofficial tally of "number one" votes cast in Tuesday's city election suggests the six people elected to the Cambridge School Committee will be evenly split between progressive candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and more conservative Independents...
With quarterback Bill Pienias '93 gone, Kwiatkowski has now turned to junior Trevor Yankoff, who will be starting just his second Ivy League game. (Sophomore Gordie Myers started the first five games but his ineffectual play led Kwiatkowski to move him to split...
...secure democratic government, and it is not clear that there are enough elements of civil society to provide a foundation for one within a length of time the U.S. public would support. The successors of Cedras and Francois would still be there, the country would still be split between a tiny elite and a vast poor majority, and most ordinary Haitians would still be making less than $100 a year...