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Stem cells derived from embryos, on the other hand, can become just about anything--from teeth to muscle to neurons. In fact, they're so strongly primed to differentiate that scientists have a tough time keeping them in their original state. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin was the first to pull off the feat in 1998. He now has an entire tissue bank of stem cells that he hopes one day to turn into specialized tissue almost at will--eliminating the need for fresh embryos...
Just before 5 p.m., Reno was sufficiently encouraged to brief Clinton on the deal. By midnight the feds had put a nine-point plan on the table: Lazaro and his family would hand over Elian to the government at 3:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Miami; the family would be put up at a hotel under guard and driven the next day to Washington. (The relatives claimed they didn't want Elian to fly. Justice officials assumed someone else in the family had a fear of flying, but agreed to chauffeur them to Washington anyway.) Once in Washington...
...Bible-study class: 300 women showed up, and attendance grew thereafter. Encouraged, Lotz began speaking publicly--and powerfully--on Scripture. Her father's biographer William Martin described her holding her own with the best at the 1983 World Evangelical Conference, "driving her points home with the same two-pistol hand gesture and hammering cadence her father had used so effectively for 40 years...
...tears of sympathy for either side. "It's hard to see any good guys in a dispute like this," says Poniewozik. "In one sense, it's not like anyone has a constitutional right to Disney programs like 'Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,' but on the other hand, it's always disturbing to see a company like Time Warner Cable, whose holdings pretty much constitute a monopoly in many areas, exercising their power by taking an entire channel...
...Pakistan, on the other hand, is an immediate problem area. It plays host to at least one group designated a terrorist organization by the State Department (the Kashmiri Harkat al Mujahedeen, implicated in last December's Indian Airlines hijacking) and has refused to close the organization down despite pressure from Washington. But adding Pakistan to the list would mean closing the door on an already unstable nuclear power, and that remains an unlikely scenario. While castigating its record on terrorism, State Department counterterrorism coordinator Michael A. Sheehan made clear that Pakistan "is a friendly state that is trying to tackle...