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...This is the daunting public relations conundrum of the stem cell researcher: Encourage interest, but manage expectations carefully. The careful balancing act, which has become quite familiar this year, was in evidence again Tuesday when scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison announced they had successfully cultivated blood cells from embryonic stem cells...
...That happy possibility is real, but it?s very much relegated to the future, emphasizes Terry Devitt, director of research communications for the University of Wisconsin. "We want to be careful not to raise false hopes," he says. "We need to perfect this technology - it will be at least five years before this has any clinical relevance...
...determine the age of the Shroud of Turin and to prove that the Piltdown man was a hoax; in Oxford, England. DIED. BETTY EVERETT, 61, soul singer whose 1964 recording of The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) became a Billboard Top 10 hit; in Beloit, Wisconsin. She was considered a major talent but had only a few other minor hits. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of JESSE HELMS, 79, cantankerous and ultra-conservative Republican who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1972; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Helms will step down when his fifth term ends...
...negotiations this week will apply only to scientists who work directly for the federal agency. But according to NIH officials, any agreement will serve as a future guideline for all researchers who get government stem-cell funding. And unless the NIH and the folks from Wisconsin are badly overestimating the goodwill on both sides, those guidelines shouldn't be awfully hard to live...
...adults--have targeted us as a market?" asked a Colorado teen. "You slapped negative labels on our entire generation," complained a Californian. "None of my friends got a Mercedes for their 16th birthday. What we do have are the problems that the President is leaving for the future." A Wisconsin high-schooler was more upbeat: "Rest easy, folks. The 95% of us who weren't handed our lives on a silver platter will make sure your later years are prosperous and pleasant. Just keep the Cartier watch on layaway...