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...teams have published articles about human embryonic stem-cell research in scientific journals since 2002, and concluded that the U.S. was "falling behind in the international race to make fundamental discoveries" in the field. Asian efforts are well funded, but haven't escaped difficulties either. South Korean veterinary scientist Woo Suk Hwang, who cloned the first dog and claimed to have cloned the first human embryo, was discredited late last year after he confessed to falsifying many of his results. Liberal laws and renewed funding, meanwhile, are pushing Europe toward the front of the field. The UK Stem Cell Foundation...
...bloggers see themselves as representatives of Democratic Party progressives who long ago soured on Harold Ford Jr.'s ever-more-conservative rhetoric and voting record. Ford's strategy has been to woo middle-of-the-road and conservative voters in Middle and East Tennessee while holding on to party-line Democrats and the solid bloc of black voters in home-town Memphis. But a resumption of the once-raging Ford-Herenton civil war could cost him, and so could simmering discontent among Democrats over his neutrality in the race to replace him in Congress. The venerable Nashville Tennessean, historically...
...paste-up technician with a calendar publisher, which rejects his attempts to become an artist (his sample illustrations are dreamy, childlike representations of disasters, natural and man-made). The office is dominated by lusty, corner-cutting Guy (Alain Chabat) who besides cracking bad, sexually charged jokes attempts to woo Stephane to the dark side: girls, booze, mild working-world rebelliousness. These passage are not wildly inventive, but at least they return us to that place where movies function most comfortably, a naturalistic world that is, of course, intensified by dialogue and plotting that stretches and enlivens reality while still keeping...
...secrets to Taiwan and setting up a spy network, but rights groups called the charges baseless, and Ching's wife said he was a victim of entrapment. His sentencing was seen as a setback for journalism in China. "This is our darkest day," Hong Kong Journalists Association chairwoman Serenade Woo said last Thursday. "We are extremely unsatisfied with the verdict...
...Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, two moves that could help her win the favor of the liberal activists if she decides to run for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. Now that the Netroots' power has been cemented, any Democratic presidential candidate will have to consider how to woo these Internet activists - or at least keep them from hating...