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Subject: [BPR] - First humans set for animal transplants
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 09:23:23 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

First humans set for animal transplants
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor

A BRITISH biotechnology company is planning the first transplants
of animal organs into humans. A senior executive of Imutran has
confirmed that the Cambridge-based firm is holding informal talks
with transplant clinics and could begin trials within a year.

The news comes as the United Kingdom Xenotransplantation
Interim Regulatory Authority (UKXIRA) prepares to release
proposed new guidelines on the procedures, which will include a
ban on all patients having children and rules governing the welfare
of animals bred for transplants.

From The Sunday Times,
http://www.sunday-
times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/11/28/stinwenws03021.html?999

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Subject: [BPR] - Should Web sites be licensed?
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:59:16 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

Should Web sites be licensed?

A debate over the regulation of the Internet is building up,
supporters say it would help trace illegal child pornography and
racist sites.

November 28, 1999, 12:51 PM

GENEVA (Reuters) - The co-inventor of the World Wide Web says
all Internet users should be licensed so surfers on the
information highway are as accountable as drivers on the road.

Robert Cailliau, who designed the Web with Briton Tim Berners-
Lee in late 1990, says regulation of the Internet would also
help trace illegal child pornography and racist sites.

But in an interview with Reuters Television, the Belgian
software scientist was adamant that the system must remain open
and neutral -- free of heavy-handed rules governing content.

Cailliau also said he expected a "micropayment system" to be
agreed eventually by the international industry consortium,
known as W3C, which sets standards for the Web.

This would give Web users the option of paying a small fee in
return for downloading advertising-free pages quickly from an
uncluttered cyberspace, according to the 52-year-old expert.

Full Story:
http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,6182,00.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (11/28/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:04:19 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

HULDAI REMOVES YARMULKE
The Tel Aviv Municipality has carried out its decision to remove
offensive words from a monument to Yitzchak Rabin. "...murdered
by a yarmulke-wearing assassin" had been the original wording,
but Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai ordered the words "yarmulke-
wearing" erased. Huldai is not ordinarily known for pro-religious
views. Mrs. Leah Rabin sharply criticized Huldai for his decision,
and vandals re-wrote the offensive words over the weekend.

Ha'aretz columnist Uzi Benziman criticized the Rabin family and
the artist for "prejudice and generalizations." He wrote today that
their stance "reflects prejudice and anger against the religious
public as a whole. The description of Yigal Amir as wearing a kippa
is no different from other details in his identity card: He was also
from a family of immigrants from Yemen, a resident of Herzliya,
thin and 25 years old at the time."

TALKS ARE STUCK
Tomorrow will mark two weeks since Israel's next withdrawal from
Judea and Samaria was to have been implemented. Yasser Arafat
continues to demand land adjacent to Jerusalem, instead of that
which he is being offered in the Judean Desert, while Israel stands
on its sole right to determine the location of the withdrawal. Arutz-
7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports: "The talks are
stuck. Even Ehud Barak is becoming more and more doubtful
whether his February deadline for a permanent-status agreement is
realistic. Israel is beginning to feel that Arafat is unable to come to
the hard decisions - such as agreeing to a final-status that does
not involve a complete Israeli withdrawal to the '67 borders or the
removal of all the Yesha settlements - by himself. He's been trying
to get the Americans involved [in convincing Israel to agree to
switch the areas of withdrawal], but in vain, as neither the U.S. nor
Israel is willing to help him climb down from his high tree. For
Israel, the principle of being able to solely determine the location of
the withdrawals, which is written into the agreements, is very
critical. Even world public opinion is on Israel's side this time... In
this sense, I'm willing to take a minority position and give credit to
Barak for his trip to Europe: It was very important in garnering
public support... The talks are simply stuck, and it doesn't seem
as if Arafat wants to come to an agreement even on principles for a
final-status agreement. For instance, he appointed as head of his
delegation the tough Yasser Abed Rabbo, with whom it is very hard
to come to an agreement on any issue, instead of Abu Mazen or
even Saeb Erekat..."

Israeli-Arab expert Dr. Rafi Yisraeli of Hebrew University, in an
interview with Arutz-7's Ron Meir on the same issue, said that
Arafat, too, is gathering European support, and sees no need to
rush. "Arafat considers America on Israel's side, especially now in
an [American] election year," Yisraeli said. "But he's trying to also
mobilize European support around him, and there it's been half and
half..." True, the agreements state that Israel is the sole arbiter of
the withdrawal maps, "but the agreements don't matter a bit. What
matters is what Arafat tells the world the agreements say. Nobody
reads the agreements... they only live by what the media says,
and if they hear that Arafat says [Israel is at fault] then that's
enough for them." The entire interview can be heard on Arutz-7's
website at http://www.a7.org/english/radio/ram/engnews/281199/prof-yisraeli-palest.ram.

Arutz Sheva News Service
 <http://www.arutzsheva.org>
Sunday, November 28, 1999 / Kislev 19, 5760

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Subject: [BPR] - Nov 29, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:08:23 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

4:00 PM Eastern

 Oprah - "Will you be safe at the millennium?"

9:00

 A&E - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS - "The Organ Trade: Life
          and Death for Sale" - The black market in human organs grows
          internationally.(CC)

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