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Page 8 yn & The Princeton Review Barter Scores. BrtrtrSctmots NEWS Thursday, Jui THE BATTALION Research debate intensifit GMJVT Preparation 24-hour access to an extensive online librai'y. Prepare now for the September GMAT! 800.2Review j www.PrincetonReview.com yn (Pr The Princeton Review Biter Scon*. Better Softool* NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The debate over the ethics of stem-cell research intensified Wednesday with word that Vir ginia scientists have created hu man embryos in the lab solely for the valuable cells. Medical ethicists say the de velopment complicates the issue at a time when President Bush is weighing whether federal mon ey should be used for research on embryonic stem cells. Patient groups favor such re search because of its break through potential in treating diseases, while anti-abortion groups and others call such work unethical because it entails de stroying the embryos. “The timing of this has been somewhere between disastrous and horrific,” said Arthur Ca- plan, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. The development “throws every thing in an uproar” and gives ammunition to those who argue that researchers are headed down a slippery slope. Embryonic stem cells can mature into any cell or tissue. As a result, scientists say they some day may be used to repair or re place damaged tissue or organs The in vitro fertil ization industry evolved with almost no regula tion, which is why you have bizarre custody disputes over fertilized eggs in refrigerators." — Kenneth Goodman director of bioethics at University of Miami in victims of Parkinsons disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer and spinal cord injuries. Until now, researchers de rived embryonic stem cells most ly from embryos left over from infertility treatments. Other re searchers have derived stem cells from other sources, such as fat cells, bone marrow and aborted fetuses, though the embryonic stem cells are the most useful. In the Virginia case, scientists approached donors and in formed them that their eggs and sperm would be used to develop embryos for stem-cell research. Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson criticized the devel opment on his “700 Club tele vision show Wednesday. ‘ We re on the slippery slope now, he said. “Before long, we’ll be har vesting body parts from fully formed people, not just from something in a petri dish. Once you begin this concept of utili tarian use of cells, then every thing is up for grabs.” Kenneth Goodman, director of bioethics at the University of Miami, said such research il lustrates the need for federal guidelines. “The in vitro fertilization in dustry evolved with almost no regulation, which is why you have bizarre custody disputes over fertilized eggs in refrigera tors,” Goodman said. “Society, in the form of government, oversee and regulates versial industry. For the ment now not to support therefore oversee—stem search would he another It would allow the rese forth unregulated again. 1 he work was done Jones Institute for Rep Medicine, a private ferolr ic responsible for the 1 1981 of the nation’s fir tube baby. The findint peared Wednesday in tht nal Fertility and Steni publication of the Americ ciety of Reproductive Me* 1 he society said ittx the researchers arethel the United States to have ed embryos explicitly fo cell research. “At one level, it’s d ethically than using le embryos, society spoh Sean Tipton said. “Thei question as to what you’ ing to do with these em You’re going to the indiv up front.” Practice on the 17 most recent LSATs. Prep for the October LSAT during the summer! 800.2Review I www.PrincetonReview.com ' iS*t «s e ftjSWK fcssdsRsn at r* taw Sttoof fcfcsfc&jn fjtml, tot. fis* fmaw- t.m* Is *is!; rttotetsa itokwaly a ! .S*C Wildfire kills four firefighter CcftS Dokkeej i steal in; ■ary Ann 2( years 0,000 fine t juesday 1 00,000 w lokkeeping xas A&M F Ruether, v B;he Fac >88, admitt ■iscoverir ■fueling to the missi offic at such th< fled by em inpent boo Hersity acc as an isolate ■he Fact Siburant or flder Tow ue-paying A WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — A wall of flame crashed down on firefighters huddled in their silver emergency shelters in a nar row canyon in the north Cascade Moun tains, killing four of them in the deadliest wildfire since 1994. The fire, which apparently was sparked Tuesday by an unattended campfire, quick ly spread through stands of 80- to 100-year- old trees in an area left vulnerable by months of drought and unusually high temperatures. It happened suddenly. Firefighters were mopping up the small fire in the Chewuch River Valley when the flames exploded, en gulfing 2,500 acres of fir and pine and trap ping 23 people behind the flames. One five-person crew ran downhill to ward the Chewuch River. They climbed into their tent-like emergency shelters that fire fighters call “shake and hakes” just as the flames overran them. Four of them — two men and two women — were killed, and their leader was hospital ized with serious burns. It was the worst loss of life since 14 firefighters were killed near Glenwood Springs, Colo., July 6, 1994. “This is a great tragedy and loss that is felt by all firefighters and agency employees everywhere,” said SonnyJ. O’Neal, supervi sor of the Okanogan and Wenatchee nation al forests. “Firefighters are a family, and any time a firefighter is killed, grief is felt by all.” An elite team of U.S. Forest Service inves tigators arrived Wednesday to investigate. ■ alumni. ()t the 21 firefighters and two(nfl trapped by the fire, most were able tocegjp L - emergency fire shelters <)r wiheruK. rlGCna PI I the flames. n office The Forest Service identified the* Tom L. Craven, 30, of Ellensburgiljj L. Fitzpatrick, 18, of Yakima; Det Weaver, 21, of Yakima; andjessical son, 19, of Yakima. 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(Next to 4.0 & Go) 694-0018 News in Brief Former president urges education BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton urged Argentine ed ucators and businessmen on Tuesday to support a local private sector effort to con nect all of the country's schools to the Internet. Clinton was in the Argen tine capital on a one-day vis it. Most paid at least $1,000 to hear him deliver the 40- minute speech emphasizing the need to increase Internet access, particularly to poor people. Clinton spoke as the paid bock officer t -%|dfiey Kend Ijbf injuries “ orcyde acd guest of educar, a founto» a | process headed by the sonofte officer |o dent Fernando DelaRua. ^ e L e( j anc j The nonprofit groupte u || et qrazec so far raised 5250,00(1 ri( L a - s shoo cash and computerstobrio- p 0 | jce w6 Internet access to every pi* J rouh jn , lie school in Argentina. ome s y atllr( 9fe Vtake th, not disclosed. 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Thomas Huser - Minister Sunday Service: 8:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Aggies Welcome! fax: (979) 696-4334 www.covenantpresbyterian.org llORPUSi lanatee, I tat imal th( lirnd mi npng sailoi sij to the Ti Marine w oded seeir lai atee tf my Amos, :e with tl ?xas Marini i Port Aran Linda Ma; irlhe Texas :r|ndihg t lanatee sig fl/aters ol ransas and Christian First Christian Church 900 South Ennis, Bryan 823-5451 Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Robert D. 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