After Bush said the Palestinians should find another leaderand get rid of Yasser Arafat, Arab leaders have had to cometo terms with the fact that neither the U.S. or Israel willdeal with him anymore. U.S. State Department spokesmanRichard Boucher confirmed this when he said that Secretaryof State Colin Powell “has no plans to talk to chairmanArafat. I think we made that quite clear.”

Arafat’s former Arab allies are now searching for areplacement they can support. “The idea is to make it clearto the Palestinians that Arafat is the sole obstacle to thegoal of achieving a Palestinian state,” an Arab diplomaticsource says. “This has placed unprecedented pressure onArafat.”
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It had to happen: white parents who underwent in-vitrofertilization have given birth to black twins. The whitemother, who lives in the U.K., wants to keep the babies, buta black couple claims they belong to them.

IVF involves mixing of the father’s sperm with the mother’seggs in the laboratory. The resulting fertilized embryos arethen implanted into the mother. In this case, either thewrong sperm was used to fertilize the eggs or a blackcouple?s fertilized embryos were wrongly implanted into awhite woman.
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Scientists have discovered that sex may be bad for yourhealth. When researchers studied why some insects have ashorter life span than others, they discovered their earlydemise is caused by hormones associated with sex.

Dr. Jens Rolff and Dr. Michael Siva-Jothy at the Universityof Sheffield in the U.K. studied mealworm beetles, which aresold in pet stores as food for pet reptiles and birds. Whenthey allowed the beetles to mate, the hormone releasedafterwards adversely affected an enzyme that is necessary toimmune system functioning. This made the beetles moresusceptible to infection, and less likely to live long lives.
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A six-week stay at a Hindu temple in India has produced thesame healing in patients with severe psychiatric disordersas a month-long course of standard drugs. A team led byRamanathan Raguram of the National Institute of MentalHealth and Neurosciences in Bangalore studied 31 people whostayed at the Muthuswamy temple between June and August 2000.
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