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| Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:00:00 EST Reflections on South Korea's stem cell scandal |
| Last May, scientists in South Korea rocked the stem cell world with news that they had created 11 stem cell lines that were genetically identical to patients with disease or spinal cord injury. But last week, an investigative panel at Seoul National University announced that all of the data from star researcher Hwang Woo Suk's groundbreaking study had been faked. |
| Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:00:00 EST Bad timing at the Times |
| As predicted by anonymous sources, James Risen's book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, out today, does indeed say that the National Security Agency has been wiretapping Americans without court oversight. Risen, a New York Times reporter, cowrote the December 16 Times article that broke the news about the eavesdropping. The article was introduced by a maddeningly uninformative one-paragraph statement from the Times that mentioned, almost casually, that the paper had the story a year ago. |
| Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:00:00 EST A bad omen for the year? |
| The New Year is starting off the same way 2005 ended—with U.S. stocks looking tired compared with their foreign counterparts. |
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