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...cells, those celebrated and controversial medical miracles, from fat removed during cosmetic surgery. It's a discovery that could, in the very long term, both bolster scientists' quest for elusive cures and, perhaps more important to the denizens of La-La Land, remove the stigma of selfishness from the process of attaining preternaturally thin thighs...
...already taken place is relatively simple; the trick is unraveling the causes and projecting what will happen over the next century. To do that, IPCC scientists fed a wide range of scenarios involving varying estimates of population and economic growth, changes in technology and other factors into computers. That process gave them about 35 estimates, ranging from 6 billion to 35 billion tons, of how much excess carbon dioxide will enter the atmosphere...
...would reach a "tipping point"--a point at which even a tiny additional increase would throw the system into violent change. If peat bogs and Arctic permafrost warm enough to start releasing the methane stored within them, for example, that potent greenhouse gas would suddenly accelerate the heat-trapping process...
Tylenol's manufacturer, for its part, insists that acetaminophen is safe if used properly. "But as part of an ongoing process, we are constantly talking to the FDA about how we can improve the label," says Dr. Anthony Temple, a vice president of McNeil Consumer Healthcare...
GEORGE W. BUSH wants to put Congress on a diet. Next week he will release details from his budget, with more specifics about his plan to eliminate close to 6,000 earmarks--those pet projects that lawmakers fund by going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks...