The Europeans are the world masters at organizing conferences in Brussels committee rooms, however, now they are rapidly running out of time and credibility as they have sought to stem the forest fire of a sovereign-debt crisis almost a year after the Greek bond market hits the buffers and needed a bailout.

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Last August, ACT unveiled a technique that might allow the creation of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos--but drew fire when critics said Lanza had not been clear enough that the embryos in the experiment were destroyed.

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Ahmadinejad's odd fixation on the apocalypse may stem from his close association with Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, a fire-brand cleric who advocates total separation from the West.

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