Stem Cell Breakthrough Means Everybody Could Conceive

As if the world of stem cell research needed more controversy, a study to be presented in Copenhagen today by British scientists shows that the future could produce lab-created ova and sperm. It could even mean that homosexual partners could produce children that are the genetic match of both partners.

Japan To Have a Whale of a Time

At this year's International Whaling Commission in South Korea, Japan announced that it would be doubling its minke whale quota to almost 900 for "scientific reasons," intending to fish them out of the IWC Antarctic reserve.

How Managers Hurt Their PR Results

Business, non-profit or association managers hurt their own public relations results when they become fascinated with PR tactics - press releases, publications and brochures and, particularly, fun-to-manage special events - while failing to plan for the perceptions and behaviors of the very people who probably hold their managerial success in their hands.