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...Angel, a driver for the regional Gush Katif bus company, says, "We feel that we are being thrown to the dogs. Why should we leave? Why should we be forced to give up this paradise? I am concerned for the next generation of Israelis, because we are giving up land all the time. It's continuous...
...will mature outside of a dog, viable eggs have to be extracted surgically. Once you have inserted the DNA you want to clone and tricked the eggs into becoming embryos, moreover, you can't just implant them at will in a surrogate bitch. Cows, goats and sheep can be thrown into estrus--readiness for pregnancy--by giving them a hormone shot. Not dogs. "You have to monitor hundreds, if not thousands, of dogs every day to figure out when they come into heat," says Westhusin. That's why Hwang's team--which stays on the job seven days a week...
Among the most aggressive of the faith-based investors is Aquinas Funds, a small family of funds, with headquarters in Dallas, formed in 1994 and committed to advancing Catholic values. Aquinas has thrown its relatively modest financial weight--it manages some $170 million-- behind the pro-life cause, arguing in its promotional literature that "investing in companies that are involved in abortions would be material cooperation with evil at a minimum." In addition to lobbying Whirlpool and other firms that once donated to Planned Parenthood, Aquinas leans on drugmakers, hospitals and insurance companies whose stock the funds own to quit...
...Stronghold (Michael Angarano), the son of the world’s two greatest superheroes, The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), has a lot to live up to as he enters his first day at Sky High. It’s here that he’ll be thrown into one of two castes: Hero or Sidekick. “If life were suddenly to get fair,” Will tells his friend Layla as she describes the problems of the system, “I doubt it would happen in high school...
...beyond a missile's altitude limit at the time the ship disintegrated. The idea that an explosive could have been smuggled aboard got no serious attention. It would be almost impossible for even the most committed terrorist to breach NASA security, all the more so with the heightened protection thrown up around a ship carrying an Israeli astronaut celebrated for having participated in the attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor...