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Paper Clips: A Ride to Remember
September 15, 2007: The Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance and Yidden on Wheels, a Toronto based Jewish motorcycle club, organized a ride from points across North America to Whitwell, TN to commemorate the Paperclip Project and in honor of the Holocaust's victims. The ride was also a fundraiser for that school, with over $35,000 being raised to help the school buy Promethean boards, a next generation interactive blackboard.
Mitchell Belman, a Toronto-based filmmaker, captured the essence of this ride in his documentary Paper Clips: A Ride to Remember.
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More Public Review of Genetically Engineered Crops
February 21, 2002: A National Academy of Sciences panel has recommended stricter and more public review of genetically modified crops before they are approved for use and more careful monitoring in the field after approval. The panel also warned that new genetic innovations, such as plants that produce their own chemical pesticides, require more rigorous review.
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New Findings Off the Coast of Cuba
December 6, 2001: Reuters News Agency reports that an exploration team led by Paulina Zelitsky used a miniature submarine to confirm the discovery of stone structures which may be the ruins of a possible submerged city in 2,100 feet of water off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula of Cuba. Because of the depth of the find, researchers have not fully identified the nature of the discovery and more dives are planned for next month.
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Embryonic Stem Cell Research
November 25, 2001: Advanced Cell Technology Inc. of Worcester, Massachusetts, announced the successful creation of human embryos through cloning. The experiment was aimed not at creating a human being but at mining the embryo for stem cells used to treat disease.
Although government funding of stem cell research is not allowed, private companies may still pursue this research. Legislation to ban human cloning and set penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for those convicted of attempting to clone humans was passed by the US House of Representatives last summer but never taken up by the Senate.
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Bio-Terrorism Preventative
October 9, 2001: NanoBio officers met with Senator Carl Levin and two of his aides in his offices to explain the technology of nanoscale biological agents and request emergency funding from the Department of Defense. At this meeting, letters of support for this technology from command centers and agencies within the DoD were requested; five have been hand-delivered. This emergency funding can significantly accelerate deployment of NanoProtect, a broad-spectrum nanoemulsion for decontamination of Anthrax spore surrogates and the research and testing of the human protective treatment medication, NanoVax.
October 15, 2001: The broad-spectrum nanoemulsion, NanoProtect, developed by Dr James R. Baker, Jr was tested by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency) against Anthrax spores at Johns Hopkins University.
October 30, 2001: NanoBio has scheduled a meeting with the EPA for emergency registration of its NanoProtect product and the testing of its human protective treatment medication.
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