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Stem Cells: Poised for a Breakthrough

By ALICE PARK

After eight years of political ostracism, stem-cell scientists like Harvard's Douglas Melton are coming back into the light--and making discoveries that may soon bring lifesaving breakthroughs

Will the U.S. Stick by Karzai in Afghanistan?

By TONY KARON

The Obama administration is revising its strategy in Afghanistan. The question is whether the current President will be part of it

The Stimulus Bill's Bumpy Ride: Is Bipartisanship Possible?

By MICHAEL SCHERER AND JAY NEWTON-SMALL / WASHINGTON

Obama presses for a speedy economic stimulus bill only to find the process slowed up by partisan politics and in need legislative sleights-of-hand

Whining to the Bitter End, Blagojevich Gets the Boot

By DAVID VON DREHLE

After delivering a whiny valedictory, the embattled politician is thrown out of office by a unanimous vote of the state senate

France's First Lady Carla Bruni: A Traitor to Italy?

By JEFF ISRAELY / PARIS

Madame Nicolas Sarkozy has been a big hit in her adopted country France but, in so doing, she has injured the pride of her native Italy

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Top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms

Never one to shy away from a controversial remark, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's demand of a personal apology from Barack Obama is just one of a number of less-than-realistic claims he's made since his election in 2005

Quotes of the Day

"I'm not telling you."
GORDON BROWN,
British Prime Minister, refusing to reveal to the press who was calling his cell phone, which went off during a press conference in Davos with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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How Scotland's Poet Seduced Brazil

By Andrew Downie

The locals were skeptical, but after a night of whisky, haggis and the loquacious verse of Robert Burns, his auld acquaintance won't be forgot

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