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...donors? That was the question facing a task force of experts from the International Society of Stem Cell Researchers (ISSCR), who have spent the last six months trying to come up with a set of guidelines to regulate what's currently the wild west field of human embryonic stem cell research. They were in part motivated by the misconduct of South Korean stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, who admitted earlier this year to paying women to donate eggs for study, a practice that many scientists believe is unethical because it could lead to coercion...
...question is what to draw them with. "Online is the Wild West," says Zucker. "There are no rules yet." More precisely, online is Deadwood: a mother lode of new riches, with big companies trying to muscle in on the prospectors. (Or buy them out: Carson Daly just signed a development deal with 20-year-old YouTube comic sensation Brooke [Brookers] Brodack.) Online, the competition is not just CBS and Fox: it's college kids on MySpace and raunchy comedy sites like collegehumor com The networks can't take as many risks online--even though the FCC can't touch them...
...Numbers 3,000 Estimated number of giant pandas left in the wild, according to a new study 1,000 Previous estimate of the giant panda population. The latest study, which relies on DNA testing of panda droppings, has eased fears over the animals' possible extinction...
...spring of 1903, Roosevelt used a trip out West to dramatize his commitment to preserving wild places. With the nature writer John Burroughs he followed birdsongs in Yellowstone Park, then rode mules into Yosemite with John Muir, the great preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. Roosevelt and Muir slept under the stars and were covered overnight by a blanket of snow. T.R.'s journey from asthmatic ornithologist to hearty rancher turned President proved that a silver-spoon birth does not have to prevent a man from developing, over time, a broad vision and a rare kind of political gumption...
RETIRING. Andre Agassi, 36, onetime wild child of tennis who shed his crazy mane but kept his zinging ground strokes and became one of only five men to have won all four Grand Slams (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens); after the 2006 U.S. Open...