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• Earth faces mass extinction.

  - 2006-03-15

  Byline: Nassim Khadem Mar 15, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A leading environmental scientist, Professor Norman Myers, spoke to the National Press Club on 15 March...

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• Oxford Outrage

  - 2003-07-04

  Greenberg, Eric J. The Jewish Week 07-04-2003 Israeli graduate student Amit Duvshani wanted to finish his master's degree in molecular biology by working in the lab of a respected scientist. So the 26-year-old Tel Aviv University student recently applied to Andrew...

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• Pain problem: when does a child feel it? (Susan Greenfield's research finds that a fetus may feel pain before 24 weeks gestation).

  - 2003-03-31

  One of the best-known scientists in the United Kingdom, Baroness Susan Greenfield, has said she believes unborn babies may develop consciousness--and feel pain--long before 24 weeks' gestation, Britain's legal cut-off for abortions. The baroness, an Oxford University neurology professor, fell short of...

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