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...plans to apply to seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services last spring awarded a $97 million contract to Sanofi-Aventis, a Paris-based drug company, to develop avian-flu vaccines using human cells. The company is preparing a 20,000-liter bioreactor tank in the U.S. to brew test cultures. Jaap Goudsmit, chief scientific officer for Netherlands-based Crucell, which supplies cell-culture technology to Sanofi-Aventis, expects to test the first cell-based avian-flu vaccine as early as next spring...
...concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into solar power is available. In one of the simplest of several variations, an array of mirrors focuses sunlight on a tank filled with water, heating it and producing steam that can be used to generate electricity. Large numbers of such solar-power plants could be installed in hot deserts and other sunny areas. Iran claims that it needs nuclear power, but Europe and the U.S. are worried that the technology could...
...gaps remain? Sure. Shall we throw up our hands and say "Since we don't know all the details at this moment, God"-oops, I mean, "an Intelligent Designer must be invoked?" The Discovery Institute, a pro-ID think tank favors teaching the controversy over evolution, but that's the scam. There is no controversy, or at least, not the scientific controversy Discovery says there...
...desk. Granted, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was no ordinary shuffler of Vatican papers; indeed, he had long been celebrated by Church conservatives as the architect of Pope John Paul II's doctrinal policy and vilified by progressives as the panzerkardinal who defended Catholic orthodoxy with the impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church headquarters for 23 years meant studying and safeguarding the Gospels, not preaching it. On March 31, Ratzinger was in his Vatican office when the phone rang with bad news. John Paul...
Conjure an image of Australia in your mind, and you’re likely envision bouncing kangaroos and jovial tank-topped men throwing “another shrimp on the barbie.” You might like to think again. This past weekend saw racially charged riots break out in southern Sydney at a popular surfing spot in North Cronulla, resulting in attacks on police and ambulance workers as well as the destruction of over 100 vehicles. Adding insult to injury, the riots also unveiled Australia’s embarrassing secret: a deep-seated racial intolerance, normally hidden behind...