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...Beijing that the administration is serious about maintaining a stable and steady relationship with China. It will be taken as a confidence-building gesture, and create time and space for the conflict over the spy plane to simmer down. And, of course, also to allow the Bush administration to establish just what its China policy is going to be. At least with the U.S. crew home and the Chinese having called off the search for Wang Wei, we have closure on the most emotional aspects of the spy-plane issue. But for the negotiators, the hard part is still...
There were risks, however. The new cells take longer to establish, exposing the child to infection. Also, as Stiehm explains, if the transplant doesn't work, "you don't have a second chance," because you're unlikely to find matching cord blood...
...JOHN OAKES, 87, crusading editorial-page writer and editor of the New York Times, whose passionate defense of human rights and the environment and early opposition to the war in Vietnam led to his dismissal as editor of the editorial page by his cousin the publisher but helped to establish the Times's liberal voice; on April 5, following a stroke last month; in Manhattan...
...What protocols would the U.S. like to establish for such flights to avoid a recurrence of the collision...
Finally, we must wonder why it took Bush so long. After all, the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, which has since been mired in controversy over questions of religious discrimination, was created from scratch in a matter of weeks. Bush may simply not have had time to establish his AIDS office earlier. But we cannot help feeling that his priorities are showing...