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A good mother knows

A 22 year old pregnant woman asks NY Times readers for advice.
Maybe a good mother knows when it’s time to terminate, for her sake and for her child’s.
I’m sure the terminated child will thank her in years to come. Oh wait…
Anyway, six days and countless comments later, the woman has decided on a course of [...]

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Mad scientist wants to clone

A doctor, Dr Panayiotis Zavos, has claimed in a TV interview to have cloned nine embryos, in a secret lab somewhere in the Middle East.
It’s probably just an unfounded publicity stunt:
Professor Robert Winston, emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, was blunter. “I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr [...]

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Earth-like planets

A new Earth-like planet has been found- the smallest ever discovered outside the solar system. It’s called Gliese 581e and it is 1.9 times the size of Earth, and it is about 20 light-years away.
(Coverage by Reuters and AP.)
The find was made by the European Southern Observatory’s telescope in La Silla, Chile. It is not [...]

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