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Many scientists were astonished by how far the South Koreans had come. Only 15 months ago, Hwang's group created a stir as the first--and so far the only--lab to generate human stem cells via SCNT. Back then it had to use 242 eggs before it was able to create a single, viable set of stem cells from a healthy woman. This time it was able to create 11 stem-cell lines using an average 17 eggs each. "The efficiency is exceptionally high--much higher than I would have thought possible," says Doug Melton, a stem-cell researcher...
...until just a few short weeks ago. On May 1, The London Times published the complete minutes of a meeting Tony Blair held with his cabinet in July of 2002. This extraordinarily damning glimpse into the pro-war clan’s decision-making process created quite a stir in England, where many voters were upset by what the document revealed about their government’s naked intent to manipulate public opinion. The disclosure came at a particularly bad time for Blair and other Labour MPs, as it forced him to publicly address the issue in the last days...
...want to stir up trouble at a party--or better still, a bar--try bringing up the question of whether homosexuality is something people are born with or something they choose. The issue has always been controversial, and it's currently at the center of a national political debate as well, thanks to the question of gay marriage. As a result, whenever science has something to say about the biology of sexual preference, it's bound to make headlines...
...Italy's recent past, ranging from the floods in Florence to the struggle against the Mafia in Sicily. At the same time he deftly involves us with a huge cast of characters-parents, siblings, lovers, friends. His melodramatic punctuations of these lives never jar us into disbelief; they simply stir the course of his elegantly believable, totally compelling narrative flow...
...proposed mandates represent another blow to states' rights that may ultimately stir up the federalist wing of the G.O.P., which is unhappy with the massive new education and homeland-security burdens imposed by Washington on the rest of the country. The suggested ID changes are particularly bold, since the 9/11 reform bill passed in December asked state officials to come together on their own to craft national standards for driver's licenses. A 16-person commission had been merrily doing that until it got a letter last week from the feds suspending its operation. "There are legitimate concerns about undermining...