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...news was huge - but it was also a lie. In 2006, Hwang admitted he had falsified his results. (Melton's colleague at HSCI, Kevin Eggan, finally created embryonic stem cells from patients in 2008.) Although Hwang became a pariah, he had the right idea. Melton and others had been trying to do just what the Korean scientist claimed to have done - grow a new population of a patient's own cells. The key to the process is a supply of fresh, good-quality human eggs, which incubate skin cells taken from a patient. Building up such a stockpile, however, proved...
...Alan Doss, the U.N. special representative who is the MONUC boss, admits, MONUC is also something of a test of good intentions. "R2P is a huge step forward in terms of the principle of international humanitarian intervention," he says. "But the question remains: How do we actually do it?" A recent trip I made to eastern Congo suggests that question is not yet answered...
...have it, Barack and Michelle Obama have two of the cutest - and therefore potentially lucrative - offspring on the planet. Beanie Babies maker Ty has already released Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia dolls. So the appetite for stories and photos of the First Daughters is going to be somewhere between huge and crazed. (And no, TIME.com is not immune. See pictures of Sasha and Malia at the Inauguration...
...With a huge security operation in place, Iraqi officials have increasingly focused on more mundane election problems such as fraud and alleged violations of campaign rules ahead of balloting. Judge Kassem al-Boudi, spokesman for the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission, said 180 complaints were already registered. "You can imagine with any elections happening in the world, you should expect a number of violations," said al-Boudi, who spoke to reporters in Baghdad along with Qadir. "And we are sure that we are going to have more...
...never have enough people, but if you could bump up enforcement levels, say, 20%, it would make a huge difference," says Bruce Carton, former senior counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement, and editor of online securities enforcement publication, Securities Docket. "Tweaking policies won't replace more manpower and training," says Carton. "It's one thing to have more enforcement people on the ground, but they have to be trained to know what to look...