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...Norfolk, Virginia, experimenters have just created human embryos, from donated eggs and sperm, for the sole purpose of harvesting stem cells for medical research...
...debate at the moment. President Bush is considering whether taxpayers' money should be used to fund stem cell research. He is under pressure from both sides. Normally, stem cells for this research come from unneeded frozen embryos at fertility clinics, material that would routinely be discarded. The news from Norfolk was bad timing, since it adds a sinister implication of human life brought into being entirely for the purpose of being cannibalized for parts. Some see only the good in these Faustian quests and manipulations - the miracles of healing...
...sent to the Norwich School in Norfolk, England. "There were racial problems, discrimination," he says. "But I made friends there. And on weekends I'd go see my relatives in Southend-on-Sea, where they ran a restaurant. I was a bartender, and I'd do amateur singing." By this time he had chosen his English name. "I love the film Gone with the Wind. And I like Leslie Howard. The name can be a man's or woman's, it's very unisex, so I like...
After an intense spring training regimen at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., the Harvard sailing team returned to championship form and won its home opener. The Crimson took first place at the 2001 Boston Dinghy Cup on the Charles River over the weekend...
...plunged 11% in the past 12 months and 36% in the past three years. The story is similar at Campbell Soup, where the stock, though up in the past year, has fallen 43% over three years. Other plans that have taken it in the chops include Procter & Gamble's, Norfolk Southern's and Cooper Tire's. In each of these cases, employer stock accounts for more than half of the plan's assets...