11alive.com — Lawmakers rejected the moral views of their political leaders Wednesday and lifted a four-year ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research — legislation that could put Australia at the forefront of research into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's.
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ramanujanreduxDec 8, 2006
A new age is dawning! The age of the marsupials is at hand!
Closed AccountDec 8, 2006
No, it was a worthless, inaccurate comment.
rowanjlDec 8, 2006
Right now we're in a similar state to America with out leaders, only here there are less sheep (we're all super paranoid :P). Everyone hates our leaders, because they're all either Bush lackies or complete pansies unable to stand up for anything, let alone have a stable party leader...Javip, you're the one who has no idea what you're talking about.
jinxtenguDec 8, 2006
Why can't we focus on improving people’s quality of life instead of searching for some unrealistic “miracle cure”
treelovinhippieDec 8, 2006
Yep in Australia the max speed is 1.5mbps in regional areas (even 2 hours out of cities) and the max in cities is 24mbps.I'd rate the US technologies as being just a notch below Japan's and we're a couple of notches below the US.Which is understandable considering Telstra owns all the phone lines in Aus, and our country has a small spread-out population.
irradiatusDec 8, 2006
The point is that fundamentally, there is no difference, other than that specific genes are turned on or off (whether by repression elements or chromatin modification) in the two cell types.A good metaphor is a combination lock. Imagine a lock. With the right combination of numbers it can be opened. With the wrong combination it cannot. However fundamentally the lock is still the same thing. The lock combination can even be reprogrammed. This is simply to point out the fact that the ES cell is not somehow fundamentally different from, and thus more sacred than, any other cell.
jinxtenguDec 9, 2006
There should be more focus on healthy living and proper eating. If we weren’t exposed to so much garbage food, nutrasweet, etc then less people would be getting cancer and related diseases. That is what I meant by “quality of life”. Eating a hamburger a day is not what I consider “quality of life” I don’t think it’s fair that people can live unhealthy lifestyles and then get cured, I think those people should die.
krinthekuzDec 10, 2006
we dont have 100mbps yet. verizon just started offering 20mbps in select areas. i'm in miami, and i have the best available: 8mbps. only a few select places have download limits though. i have an old 400 mhz comp running bittorrent downloading things all day every day.as for gadgets, asia destroys us too. we just started getting phones with 1.3mpx cameras, a few select phones have media players, and almost nothing has wifi. i had to get my motorola a1200 (pim, 2mpx camera, media player, bluetooth) imported from china. meanwhile, asia has apparently had tech like this for quite a few years.i want a handheld with a pim, 4mpx camera with 4x optical zoom + flash, a media player that doesnt have a moronic UI, bluetooth, wifi, gps, and isnt vendor locked to s**t. my a1200 (a linux phone) mounts in linux, but it only mounts the usd card, not the system memory. the FIC2 will be the closest to this, but wont be out until mid 2k7