 A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a cafe in northern Iraq popular with Shiites, killing 25 people, an Iraqi general said Sunday. Earlier, six of more than 30 people seized at an Iraqi Olympic Committee meeting were released in Baghdad, while a British soldier was killed during a raid in southern Iraq. The six hostages were left blindfolded and unharmed in the capital's Baladiyat neighborhood, Iraq's Sport Journalist Union said. There was no word on the other hostages, including the Olympic National Committee chairman, Ahmed al-Hijiya. A former member of Iraq's Olympic committee, Nashat Mahir al-Salman, 75, was the first abductee dropped in the neighborhood, followed hours later by Baghdad soccer coach Ahmed Subhi and four security guards, the sports union said. ...
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 Key to stem cells lies in their power |
The Senate will start a debate on Monday on a bill aimed at encouraging stem cell research, and experts agree that stem cells hold the power to transform medicine, allowing doctors to one day regenerate damaged and diseased tissue. Disagreement lies in which types of stem cells hold the most promise, and whether it is unethical to experiment on the types taken from human embryos. Terminology is key to the debate about stem cells. — Totipotent stem cells are produced in the first few days after sperm meets egg. Each of these very early embryonic cells can give rise to an entire organism, including the placenta. — Embryonic stem cells come from a ball of cells known as a blastocyst, which develops five to seven days after conception. These embryonic stem cells are pluripotent — meaning they can differentiate into all the types of cells that make up an animal, including a human being, but do not form placenta and cannot become a fetus. — Fetal stem cells come from ...
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| Heat Wave Strikes Across U.S. |
Temperatures soared into the upper 90s and higher Sunday from coast to coast, bringing out heat warnings, wilting athletes and driving others into the shade. The choking heat was expected to continue for the next few days, and the hot air was moving toward the East Coast, meteorologists said.Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Sunday that the state would make more than 130 office buildings available as cooling centers beginning Monday. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty had ordered the National Guard out to help firefighters as temperatures even in the normally cool northern part of the state pushed 100 degrees amid very dry conditions.The National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings for Las Vegas, Chicago, St. Louis and Tulsa, Okla. Excessive heat watches were issued for the Philadelphia area and New Jersey, where thermometers made it into the 90s Sunday in a rehearsal for highs of 100 degrees Monday....
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| Huge protest in Mexico backs leftist |
The leftist candidate claiming fraud in Mexico's presidential election two weeks ago led tens of thousands of supporters through the capital on Sunday to pressure a court to order a recount. Losing leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador flashed smiles and gave the thumbs-up sign as he marched with throngs of people along the main Reforma avenue toward the Zocalo square downtown."You are not alone," chanted supporters, dressed in the yellow of his Party of the Democratic Revolution. Some shot fireworks in the air.A court is investigating complaints by Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, that conservative candidate Felipe Calderon, the government and electoral officials stole the presidency from him through fraud at the July 2 election....
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| Shuttle cleared for Monday return |
With the last potential snags to landing cleared on Sunday, the astronauts on space shuttle Discovery hoped for good weather so they could cap a comeback mission for NASA with a smooth Florida touchdown. The shuttle was scheduled to land on Monday at 9:14 a.m. EDT (1314 GMT) at Kennedy Space Center if the weather cooperates. Mission Control communicator Steve Frick radioed that final inspection of the heat shield showed Discovery's wings and nose cap "all looked good." He also said "we're feeling … more comfortable" that a hydraulic power unit leak isn't a problem. "You are cleared for entry," Frick radioed Discovery from Johnson Space Center in Houston. "That sounds great," shuttle commander Steve Lindsey responded. ...
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| Some 9/11 families call for changes in search for remains |
Scores of people rallied at ground zero Saturday to remember the fallen, and call for a more thorough search for the bone fragments still being found at the World Trade Center site.Activists have said they aren't convinced that enough is being done to recover any small bits of remains that might still be hidden among other debris at the vacant Deutsche Bank building, which was damaged beyond repair in the trade center collapse.Richard A. Gould, a professor of anthropology at Brown University, said he is concerned the teams scouring the building are using tools too crude to find every bone fragment."What the site needs is a careful, systematic clearing job," he said. "So far, that hasn't happened yet."The search for remains at the skyscraper resumed this month after a two-month break ordered by environmental officials....
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