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Newsweek (New York)

  • A gene for genius?

    Researchers led by Robert Plomin of London's Institute of Psychiatry found that smart DNA could explain how IQ is

  • Praying for rain

    Spraying water from a truck, the firemen battle bravely on the front of Indonesia's latest environmental war against itself. Smoke from a new season of forest fires already burns the throats of many

  • Cellular divide

    Harvested from embryos, stem cells may cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and a host of other diseases. But now the cells are at the heart of a war pitting pro-life purists against

  • Scarred for life

    Many of the impoverished citizens of the former Soviet republics are looking to score a windfall by selling an organ to a wealthy recipient, often relying on criminal middlemen to secure the deal.

  • A crisis of biotech

    Morality and painful memories prompt Germany to put its stem-cell research on hold : a

  • The dinosaur fish

    Sturgeons have survived 200 million years of evolution but may not endure the collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union has made the sturgeons a prime target for poachers. In the

  • In search of stem cells

    The sudden attention followed the announcement by the U.S. National Institutes of Health that CyThera has more stem-cell colonies-nine-than anyone else in the United States. Fear that it would be

  • Raping Borneo

    Indonesia's democratic regime tolerates rampant logging and mining that are extinguishing wildlife. "The tragedy of democracy is going to be the environment," says Jatna Supritna, country director of

  • An industry in embryo

    Only 10 stem-cell labs in the world have won the Bush Administration's blessing. Two of them are in India. It's a big boost for the country's biotech

  • The germ hunters

    A hardy group of Brazilian scientists have taken to the field, chasing mosquitoes and mice. They are the first line of defence against infectious

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