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By Simon WIlliams
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
This week a furore has blown up over threats made by the Catholic Cardinal Pell and his counterpart Archbishop Hickey in Perth against Catholic politicians who support stem cell research. Pell has raised the nightmare scenario of mad scientists cloning human-hamster hybrids from embryonic stem cells. The reality is that this technology, while still in its early stages, has the potential to cure several devastating medical conditions.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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Revently there have been moves by so-called private equity consortiums to take over household names such as Qantas and Coles.Behind the term "private equity" hides good old "asset stripping". It is not about making things. It's about making money from money, buying up companies, stripping them and selling them off with a mountain of debt. Here we reproduce an article from Britain's Socialist Appeal which explains what this is all about.
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