A human embryo was first cloned in 1998, according to the Human Cloning Foundation, though development was halted after 12 days. In November of this year, Dr. Severino Antinori claims a woman will bear a child "conceived" by cloning in January 2003, though no proof has been forthcoming from earlier, similar announcements by him.
However, it seems that Stanford will indeed be focusing more on stem cell cloning and research, rather than embryos entire. That doesn't mean other universities or organizations won't use this announcement as a stepping stone to researching embryonic cloning (for the purpose of "growing" cloned humans), though.
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I am in Ireland (the Republic of), hence the "here in Ireland" part of my previous post.;)
Here is a table that shows the October 2002 averages of petrol prices in European countries and in the US as a whole.
The US Department of Energy breaks the US average down by region, and also includes information on tax percentages (33% of the pump price is tax in the US, compared to approximately 75% in the UK and Europe).
Again, UK prices are undeniably higher on average than US ones, but European prices aren't always.
It's also notable that California uses the "cleanest-burning gasoline in the world", according to the Western States Petroleum Association. I am trying to find comparison data between CARB Phase II gasoline and European diesel quality, as I know there are some who will say diesel is still cleaner. [Whether that's true or not in the case of the diesel used in Europe, I don't know. I do know that ARCO themselves admit diesel-fueled vehicles in California are 2% of vehicles on the road, but emit 30% of the nitrogen oxides present, which doesn't sound cleaner to me, at least not by that measure.]
I'd like to point out that while gas is cheaper in the US, it's not as much cheaper as people seem to think.
Most prices listed for the US are for 'standard' 85-87 octane unleaded. The lowest level of octane available in many parts of europe is mid-90s -- here in Ireland I can choose between 92 and 97 octane unleaded -- which means that comparisons should be between European standard prices and US premium prices.
At 0.87 euro / L and roughly 3.7 L/gallon, that works out to approximately $3.14 for a gallon of premium gasoline. Don't get me wrong, it's still undeniably more expensive here, but when the average for 87 octane gas in parts of the US is reaching $1.90, with premium prices correspondingly higher, it suddenly doesn't seem as big a gap as people tout.
In particular, when gas prices were higher in the US, lower here, and the exchange rate was more dollar-favorable, gas prices were within a few cents of each other. That's not the case at the moment, but it's not unheard of.
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A human embryo was first cloned in 1998, according to the Human Cloning Foundation, though development was halted after 12 days.
In November of this year, Dr. Severino Antinori claims a woman will bear a child "conceived" by cloning in January 2003, though no proof has been forthcoming from earlier, similar announcements by him.
However, it seems that Stanford will indeed be focusing more on stem cell cloning and research, rather than embryos entire. That doesn't mean other universities or organizations won't use this announcement as a stepping stone to researching embryonic cloning (for the purpose of "growing" cloned humans), though.
And then I specify "plain text" and HTML is still rendered. Ah well, you all know what I meant! Sorry again!
Apologies for the jumble -- I didn't put in any
tags to delineate my paragraphs. That will teach me to rely on whitespace!
I am in Ireland (the Republic of), hence the "here in Ireland" part of my previous post. ;)
Here is a table that shows the October 2002 averages of petrol prices in European countries and in the US as a whole.
The US Department of Energy breaks the US average down by region, and also includes information on tax percentages (33% of the pump price is tax in the US, compared to approximately 75% in the UK and Europe).
Again, UK prices are undeniably higher on average than US ones, but European prices aren't always.
It's also notable that California uses the "cleanest-burning gasoline in the world", according to the Western States Petroleum Association. I am trying to find comparison data between CARB Phase II gasoline and European diesel quality, as I know there are some who will say diesel is still cleaner. [Whether that's true or not in the case of the diesel used in Europe, I don't know. I do know that ARCO themselves admit diesel-fueled vehicles in California are 2% of vehicles on the road, but emit 30% of the nitrogen oxides present, which doesn't sound cleaner to me, at least not by that measure.]
I'd like to point out that while gas is cheaper in the US, it's not as much cheaper as people seem to think.
Most prices listed for the US are for 'standard' 85-87 octane unleaded. The lowest level of octane available in many parts of europe is mid-90s -- here in Ireland I can choose between 92 and 97 octane unleaded -- which means that comparisons should be between European standard prices and US premium prices.
At 0.87 euro / L and roughly 3.7 L/gallon, that works out to approximately $3.14 for a gallon of premium gasoline. Don't get me wrong, it's still undeniably more expensive here, but when the average for 87 octane gas in parts of the US is reaching $1.90, with premium prices correspondingly higher, it suddenly doesn't seem as big a gap as people tout.
In particular, when gas prices were higher in the US, lower here, and the exchange rate was more dollar-favorable, gas prices were within a few cents of each other. That's not the case at the moment, but it's not unheard of.