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...last few weeks have been rough for North Korea. After the country provoked international ire by test-firing seven ballistic missiles, the United Nations Security Council voted to bar U.N. member states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...something worse than that, he doesn't deserve to win." ARLENE LANDIS, mother of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, saying she hoped the result of his drug test-in which the cyclist tested positive for high levels of testosterone-was due to the medication he was taking to treat the pain in his injured...
What's unknown--and crucial--for Landis is the result of another test on his urine samples, the one that measures the carbon-isotope ratio. This examines the atomic makeup of the testosterone in Landis' body. If the ratio of carbon isotopes matches those found in synthetic testosterone, Landis will be in trouble. But even then, the debate might go on because some scientists say this particular test is not infallible. Says Dine: "With testosterone, there is no scientific consensus...
Since there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11, it's obvious that George W. Bush's "cowboy diplomacy" is just what we need. The challenges the President has faced would test the fortitude of any leader, but thankfully he has proved to be more than equal to the task...
...from animal products used in the process. Regulators want data on how the cells will behave in the human body. Stem cells have shown a dismaying talent for turning into tumors. Will they migrate into unwanted areas? No one knows. You can't find out for sure until you test in humans, but it's hard to test in humans until you can be reasonably sure you won't harm them in the process...