As well as medical applications, there would be huge philosophical and ethical implications. It appears there is now a policy of criminalising all Chechen males aged between 10 and 60 in the wake of recent Russian losses. Take a look also at this story in the Moscow Times and the response of the aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres. 12th January Donate up to 3 cups of staple food for free at the Hunger Site. There's an ocean of water on Europa.
Wiccan teacher fights suspension from North Carolina school.
Today's big news is the likely impending release of former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, for reasons of ill health. Pinochet was arrested and put under house arrest whilst on a trip to the UK at the end of 1998 after a Spanish judge issued a warrant for his arrest for torture. The BBC has some analysis of the Pinochet case and one of the dictatorship's victims remembers. General Pinochet led a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende in 1973. After the coup, many thousands of opponents of the military regimes were tortured, forced into exile, murdered or simply 'disappeared'.