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...Love is the first one whose subject carries its own reverberations and weight, meaning and memories. Beatles songs do what Cirque directors do: tell stories, weave moods, conjure fictional worlds. People coming to Love bring their personal connections to the songs with which Champagne's interpretations must compete. His task is not just to devise a magical mise-en-scene for a number but to equal the power of the original song. Otherwise, a viewer watching the Cirque interpretation of a Beatles song could say, "I don't see it like that...
...donors? That was the question facing a task force of experts from the International Society of Stem Cell Researchers (ISSCR), who have spent the last six months trying to come up with a set of guidelines to regulate what's currently the wild west field of human embryonic stem cell research. They were in part motivated by the misconduct of South Korean stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, who admitted earlier this year to paying women to donate eggs for study, a practice that many scientists believe is unethical because it could lead to coercion...
...whether women who donate eggs for purely altruistic reasons - volunteering to undergo the extensive hormonal preparation prior to donation, as well as the invasive procedure of harvesting the eggs themselves - should be paid for their troubles "occupied our time more than any other topic," said Kathy Hudson, a task force member from Johns Hopkins. Some members felt strongly that women should be compensated for the exhaustive procedure, while others were equally adamant that eggs should be treated no differently from any other human tissue that's donated...
...task force ultimately came to a consensus to prohibit paying women who donate eggs, but allow reimbursement for travel or other directly related expenses such as lost wages. (Incidentally, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which last month became the first U.S. academic facility to begin recruiting women to donate eggs for stem cell studies, adopted the same restriction; they will not pay women for donating, but will compensate them for travel and other expenses related to their participation.) The task force released a draft of its proposed guidelines to its 2300 membership in a town hall forum at the Society...
...state legislature has the opportunity to redraw Bonilla's district, but given the divisive battle over redistricting and a pending gubernatorial election, few observers expect the lawmakers to take on that task again. That leaves it up to a three judge federal panel to look at maps submitted by the parties, or to simply draw...