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Then there's her Jewish problem: she will have to explain to Jewish groups what she really meant last year when she called for Palestinian statehood. In the TIME/CNN poll, half of Jewish voters, who account for 10% of the state's registered voters, say they disagree. While most say her position wouldn't be sufficient reason to vote against her, Giuliani--who won 7 of 10 Jewish votes in 1997--is already exploiting the issue; last week he slapped her for "siding with the Palestinians against the Israelis." This is, after all, the man who in 1995 had Yasser...
...problem is that Albright's plan for Kosovo calls for putting NATO ground troops onto Yugoslav territory, something President Slobodan Milosevic says violates his sovereignty; it would be, he says, as if he had suggested putting NATO troops into Northern Ireland to control unrest there. NATO says the ethnic violence in Kosovo demands a strong international response. For Albright and her team, the stalled talks have meant preparing a two-track approach that will involve bombing if Milosevic refuses to negotiate and ground troops if he agrees to a last-minute concession...
...HEART--AND BEYOND. One drawback with all these techniques is that it takes time, usually several weeks, to grow organs using the patient's own cells. Although using these cells sidesteps the rejection problem, time is a luxury many patients, particularly heart patients, can't afford. So Michael Sefton, who directs the tissue-engineering center at the University of Toronto, has proposed building a "heart in a box"--complete with chambers, valves and heart muscles--from cells genetically engineered to block the signal with which the body marshals cells to attack invaders. Sefton envisions spin-offs along the way--like...
Replacement hearts--or even replacement heart parts--are at least a decade off, estimates Kiki Hellman, who monitors tissue-engineering efforts for the FDA. "Any problem that requires lots of cell types 'talking' to one another is really hard," she notes. Bone and cartilage efforts are much closer to fruition, and could be ready for human trials within two years. And what of those magical stem cells that can grow into any organ you happen to need--if the law, and biologists' knowledge, permit? "Using them," says Sefton, "is really the Holy Grail...
Shalit won't confirm the virgin part, saying only that she's "inexperienced." And that's exactly the problem with the book: for every statement that seems knowing, there are three that seem naive or exaggerated. Shalit attacks Prozac and the Pill as antithetical to female nature and argues that sexual harassment is better addressed by courtly standards than by legislation. Say what? She wields Kant and Kierkegaard in defending the past; for modern times, however, her shaky authorities tend to be women's magazines. And though she properly skewers those who ridicule women who say no, her modesty...