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...replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in his first year in high politics has become best known for unquestioning devotion to the President, took over the Interior Ministry from Vladimir Rushailo. And the Defense Ministry acquired its first female deputy minister, financial specialist Lyubov Kudelina...
...visibly straining the integrity of their tux fabric. The FBI confirmed last week that the men were federal agents, brought in as a last-minute precautionary measure after the bureau learned of a multimillion-dollar ransom plot against Crowe. The actor, who starred as a kidnap-and-rescue specialist in Proof of Life, was made aware of the threat but decided to attend the awards anyway. Crowe's publicist says her client has increased his personal security team but has not missed any scheduled public appearances. Crowe expects to attend the Academy Awards on March 25 since he is nominated...
Despite the pair's recent success, the Crimson still matches up well with its Ivy counterparts. Harvard boasts the offense of sophomore center Dominic Moore, the team's leading scorer and short-handed specialist. Moore is fourth in the conference with 28 points, and leads the league with three goals on the penalty kill...
...sorts of people might be attracted to the idea of the ultimate experiment in single parenthood. Jack Barker, a marketing specialist for a corporate-relocation company in Minneapolis, is 36 and happily unmarried. "I've come to the conclusion that I don't need a partner but can still have a child," he says. "And a clone would be the perfect child to have because I know exactly what I'm getting." He understands that the child would not be a copy of him. "We'd be genetically identical," says Barker. "But he wouldn't be raised by my parents...
...inquiries are pouring in because some scientists are ever more willing to say yes, perhaps we can. Last month a well-known infertility specialist, Panayiotis Zavos of the University of Kentucky, announced that he and Italian researcher Severino Antinori, the man who almost seven years ago helped a 62-year-old woman give birth using donor eggs, were forming a consortium to produce the first human clone. Researchers in South Korea claim they have already created a cloned human embryo, though they destroyed it rather than implanting it in a surrogate mother to develop. Recent cover stories in Wired...