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...hard-earned private funds. (Researchers are still prohibited from using federal money to create new stem-cell lines because of a congressional ban on harming or destroying embryos.) According to some estimates, as many as 780 such lines may exist worldwide, but not all labs may be willing to subject themselves to the scrutiny and administrative hassle of registering their lines with the NIH. Even among the handful of stem-cell lines that were eligible for federally funded study under President Bush, only one has so far been resubmitted for NIH review and inclusion in the government registry...
...Spokespeople for McDonald's, Burger King and Kellogg's all declined to offer an opinion on the proposed legislation, saying it was still subject to modification and congressional approval. A vote has not yet been scheduled on the bill. But when a similar toy ban was proposed by the municipal government of Liverpool, England, McDonald's officials argued that the plan was unworkable because it was too broad and said that it took "the fun out of eating." That ban has yet to be enacted...
Many reporters do not have a strong understanding of economics, Giles said. “They sort of pick it up along the way, and this is a very complex subject,” he said...
...Ignorance of financial history is one of the things that caused this crisis—this apparent belief that all the financial problems of the past cannot occur again,” Ferguson said. “It is not an elite subject, it is a common subject...
Each post begins with a subject line, like an e-mail, and follows with a boundless (as far as Shahabi knows) text entry box, like a blog post. You can post anything from a 140-character rant to a manuscript-in-progress. Unlike FML, it's not monitored except for potential spam that is flagged by other users. Shahabi says to think of it like YouTube, but for written content...