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...debate are the tiny four- and eight-cell spheres that represent human life at a very early stage -- three days after fertilization. Scientists have long known from animal studies that cells in these pre-embryos are totipotent (that is, capable of taking any subsequent form, from skin to bone marrow) and more or less expendable. A 16-cell bovine embryo can be divided into four equal groups of four cells each, cultured for a few more days, and then redivided to yield 16 identical cell clusters, each of which will grow into a genetically interchangeable...
...Bone Machine, tom Waits' latest album, is a landmark for American pop music. Waits presents a stark series of bluesy songs that are innovative and profound. The most striking thing about the album is its spare sound. Waits strips down the blues to create a haunting timbre of heavy, hollow drums, chilling guitars and growling vocals...
Second, and more important, Bush tossed a bone to traditional conservatives who believe that the essence of conservatism is keeping government from engineering citizens' private lives. The president remarked that policies about family issues should be "crafted in the work-place and not in Washington...
...Washington University, is one of a growing -- and controversial -- group of graveyard detectives. Listening with the ears of high-tech equipment, they try to hear the tales that dead men tell -- stories that could settle age-old mysteries and even solve crimes. In a rush to rewrite history, these bone buffs are going after the skeletons of everyone from Presidents and Czars to assassins and the victims of cannibals...
Within the cave Greenhut found 12 ossuaries, or bone boxes, dating to the 1st century. Six of the limestone containers had been disturbed by grave robbers. But one of the intact ossuaries bore the inscription "Yehosef bar Qayafa," or Joseph, son of Caiaphas, and included the remains of a woman, a man of about 60 and four children. The outside of the ossuary is decorated in a rare and intricate pattern of concentric circles and rosettes, perhaps befitting a priest's tomb. After almost 2,000 years, however, it is impossible to know for sure...