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...when the National Gallery bought Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci from Liechtenstein. Leonardo was in his early '20s when he painted this daughter of a rich Florentine banker, circa 1474-78. On the front of the panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues of the far sky and the trees and water in the middle distance. Her blond hair frames her face in fine, tight ringlets. The painting prefigures Leonardo's later obsession with studies...
...Industrial production for November - the egg to business inventories' chicken - suggested a bit of both. The cause for disappointment was that output at factories, mines and utilities fell 0.3 percent, the 13th decline in the past 14 months and another sad chapter in a trend; industrial production peaked in June of 2000 and has since fallen by 6.8 percent, the biggest decline since the 1981-82 recession...
That may be too harsh. Just getting a human embryo started without the union of sperm and egg was a feat never before achieved. It's a step, though a small one, in a potentially important direction...
...tissue, they can trigger rejection; ideally, doctors would prefer to get stem cells from a patient's own body. The most direct way to do that is through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method used to produce Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammalian clone...
Reproductive cloning, which involves inserting a person's genetic material into an egg and allowing the egg to develop into a fetus, would be performed with the goal of bringing a cloned baby to term. Last week the U.K. rushed through emergency legislation banning reproductive cloning after a legal loophole was exposed in its current regulations...