"Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Rulled Ineligible for Federal Funds"

clipped from www.citizenlink.org Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Ruled Ineligible for Federal Funds The National Institute of Health's (NIH) Advisory Committee recommended withholding federal research funding for embryonic stem cell lines on Wednesday that were thought to be eligible with Obama's policy. Concerned that one particular sentence would open up to lawsuits, the Committee decided to err on the side of caution. Days after his inauguration, President Obama reversed President Bush's policy of restricting the use of federal funds for research on human embryonic stem. Prentice notes that embryonic research involves destroying a young human life and more. "They haven't helped anybody. They haven't really helped that many mice in almost 30 years of research. They tend to form tumors instead." Meanwhile he lists numerous advances in adult stem cell treatments from bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and more.

Article Link: "New Pictures Show Jupiter Is Missing a Stripe"

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New Pictures Show Jupiter Is Missing a Stripe

AOL News (May 13) -- New pictures of Jupiter show that a huge band of dark clouds that normally surrounds the giant planet has vanished.

The planet's appearance usually is dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere -- one in the north and another in the south -- along with the Giant Red Spot, an enormous storm that is more than twice the size of Earth.

All three were visible at the end of last year before the planet went behind the sun. When it re-emerged last month, new pictures from Australian astronomer Anthony Wesley showed the southern cloud band was nowhere to be seen.

This is not the first time the southern band has gone missing. It vanished in the 1990s and was also absent in 1973 when NASA took its first close-up pictures of the planet, according to New Scientist.

Wesley is already looking forward to seeing the southern band return, an event he hopes will happen this year or next.

Our Amazing Planet: "Earth Day Predictions of 1970"

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Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009.

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

Here we are, 39 years later

Go to the site for more predictions. In case you didn't catch it, all these predictions were made over 39 yrs ago. :)

Our Amazing Planet: "The Size of Our World"

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The Size Of Our World

News/Politics: Obama to reverse embryonic stem cell research ban

I think that Obama has taken a list of all the things Conservatives support & is going down that list doing the exact opposite.

Diabetes Fighting Lettuce

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Diabetes-fighting lettuce

Diabetes is one of the most frustrating and life-threatening illnesses out there. Living with it (at minimum) means daily, sometimes painful insulin injections - until now. University of Central Florida professor Henry Daniell has created a genetically modified strain of lettuce (pictured above) that carries the insulin gene. The lettuce cells protect the insulin on its journey through the digestive tract, and when the insulin reaches the intestines, the body’s natural insulin-producing response is triggered.

Martian dust devils

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Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action

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