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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those of you who have been hanging out on ExI-chat for a long time, remember the kinds of stuff we were talking about here less than 20 yrs ago, how ethereal it seemed, so far off. These are the top five stories today in the most mainstream news source there is, CNN:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-right:7.5pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Science news<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/ivf-mitochondria/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>FDA considering '3-parent babies' </span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282'>updated 7:06 PM EST, Thu February 27, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/ivf-mitochondria/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=120 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111012042456-newborn-baby-birth-video-tease.jpg"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/us/seattle-mammoth-tusk/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Huge mammoth tusk discovered</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282'>updated 8:07 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/us/seattle-mammoth-tusk/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=120 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140214124404-mammoth-seattle-0214-video-tease.jpg"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Seattle paleontologists safely removed the largest fossilized mammoth tusk discovered in the region from a construction site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/texas-lungs-grown/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Human lung made in lab for first time </span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282'>updated 4:37 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/texas-lungs-grown/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=120 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140214150321-lung-comparison-video-tease.jpg"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For the first time, scientists have created human lungs in a lab -- an exciting step forward in regenerative medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/health/nanomotors-cells-science/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Scientists control motors inside cells</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282'>updated 7:55 AM EST, Wed February 12, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/health/nanomotors-cells-science/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=120 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140211120350-nanoparticles-video-tease.jpg"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tiny rocket-shaped metal particles might one day take a wild ride inside your body.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/health/bionic-hand/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Artificial hand lets amputee feel </span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282'>updated 3:11 PM EST, Thu February 6, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white'><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/health/bionic-hand/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=120 height=68 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140205153125-bionic-hand-video-tease.jpg"></span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ten years ago on New Year's Eve, Dennis Aabo Sorensen was launching fireworks when a defective rocket blew up. He was rushed to the hospital, and his left hand was amputated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool, ja?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>