A severely burned Irish girl will be the first ever face transplant recipient [boingboing]. Not to be grotesque or anything, but I wonder if the recipient will actually look like the donor after the procedure is done. Or, will the recipient's own facial bone structure greatly change the shape and appearance of the transplanted face? 3:14:23 PM      

With prospects of war, a stale economy and other social problems facing our country, it seems a waste of time and resources for the government to make laws banning cloning [Wired]. Yet, it is an issue that has "ethical" implications. I, on the other hand, feel that the government should spend more time solving the problems of the economy, terrorism and the issue of Iraq.

A handful of human cells is irrelevant. Millions of human cells die each day in a typical human being and no one takes any notice. But, as soon as those cells represent a "human life" than it becomes an issue. If these bundles of cells did, in fact, represent a human life then I might agree that they should have rights. But the fact is that they do not represent a life. Moreover, their utility for preserving human lives is uncontestable. Leave science alone to better life and keep your laws out of what you don't understand. 11:10:14 AM