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...rule at the Virginia Military Institute has at least one women's legal group in an uproar. And their ire is perfectly understandable - if totally misdirected. The regulation, formally issued January 14th, demands the voluntary departure of cadets who get married, become pregnant, or cause someone else to become pregnant. Unfair, charges the National Women's Law Center; the new rules violate anti-discrimination laws established to protect pregnant women. The NWLC is right; the VMI rules are discriminatory - but not for the reasons the NWLC argues...
...decision. Unless new evidence develops, Reid will be indicted in Boston, where he was arrested after his American Airlines flight made an emergency landing. If Justice Department officials felt he was part of a larger conspiracy, presumably his case would be transferred to the terrorism task force in northern Virginia, which is prosecuting Moussaoui (who sought last week to have his trial televised) and other central figures in the Sept. 11 case...
SCOTLAND Cloning and Health As scientists in Virginia proudly showed off five cloned piglets, genetically modified to have organs compatible for human transplant, the world's first cloned mammal was found to have arthritis, possibly as a result of her unique origin. Dolly the sheep, who was cloned at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute from a cell taken from an adult animal, has developed the disease several years earlier than is normal for a sheep. Roslin scientist Ian Wilmut called for systematic reviews of the health of cloned animals. Profile: But She's So Young AUSTRALIA Black Christmas...
...hope for increasing the nation's too-small supply of transplantable organs came Thursday as researchers publicized the completion of a significant step forward in developing pig organs for use in human patients. The announcements came from scientists on two different teams, one from PPL Therapeutics Inc. in Blacksburg, Virginia, and the other representing a joint effort by the University of Missouri and Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc., based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Both groups reported they have produced pigs that lack GGTA1, one of two genes that cause the human body to reject organs harvested from swine. Experts, while careful to note...
...Moussaoui's trial will be closely watched, not only for the alleged terrorist himself but for the locale and the presiding judge. The Alexandria, Virginia court is known as the "rocket docket," for the deliberate speed of its proceedings, and Judge Brinkema is considered the lone progressive in an overwhelmingly conservative court. There is some conjecture Moussaoui's attorneys may push for a change of venue, given the proximity to the Pentagon attack site...