WHEN Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport reopened on 4 October, the
news-stands that had been hastily abandoned three weeks earlier held a reminder
of just how much the US’s perception of what constitutes big news has changed.
The front page of The New York Times for 11 September contained a
hard-hitting article about a report from the National Academy of Sciences
calling for additional embryonic stem cell lines. The report also suggested that
if these lines were ever to be useful for human transplantation, they might have
to be derived using cloning techniques. In early September, stem cells and their…
Washington diary
By Andreas Frew
27 October 2001
