Stem Cells

Cells are the building blocks of life. Your body is made up of millions and millions of cells. Different parts of your body are made of different cells. You have skin cells, blood cells, bone cells, brain cells, and cells for every other part.

Stem cells are one kind of cell found in your body. Stem cells are “blank” cells. They turn into the different cells in your body. Stem cells can turn into the skin, blood, bone, and brain cells.

Some scientists were studying stem cells, and now these scientists think that stem cells can cure diseases. Scientists found ways to make the stem cells grow hair, for bald people, and organs like livers and kidneys, for people whose organs don't work anymore. These scientists are finding more and more things to do with stem cells.

It costs a lot of money to study stem cells. The scientists that are trying to turn stem cells into cures are having a really hard time paying their bills. In the past, rich people who liked science would give money to these scientists. This is called “private funding”. To “fund” someone is to give money to them. It's “private” because it isn't money from the government. In America , the President, Mr. Bush, decided that it's not fair to give money to some of these scientists. This means that he doesn't believe in “public funding”, or giving the people money from the government. Mr. Bush doesn't want them to study some stem cells because of where those stem cells come from.

Some other countries' leaders agree with Mr. Bush here in America . They don't think that stem cells are as cool as some scientists say they are. But there are other countries whose leaders really like stem cell research, and hope that the stem cells will someday be able to cure a lot of sick people. Some scientists from America that can't pay for their research are moving to other countries. The governments of those countries will pay for the research of these scientists.

What do you think? Do you think scientists should be allowed to study stem cells? Who should pay for the research?

Medical researchers believe that stem cells have the potential to be used to cure various diseases as well as replace organs and vital tissues in the body. Adult stem cells, undifferentiated cells that create the differentiated cells of the body, are already being used to treat over a hundred diseases and conditions. Many of the ethical issues that critics take with stem cells collected from blastocysts, which must be destroyed after harvesting, are thus circumvented with collection from full-grown adults. But adult stem cells also have many limitations, including being only present in minute qualities, possibly.

Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf..1925 ( Wikipaedia)

Mein Kampf
Most common cover of Mein Kampf.
Author(s)	Adolf Hitler
Country	Germany
Language	German
Genre(s)	Autobiography, Political theory
Publisher	Eher Verlag
Publication date	July 18, 1925
Pages	720
Followed by	Zweites Buch

In Mein Kampf, Hitler uses the main thesis of "the Jewish peril", which speaks of an alleged Jewish conspiracy to gain world leadership.^[6] The narrative describes the process by which he became increasingly anti-semitic and militaristic, especially during his years in Vienna. Yet, the deeper origins of his anti-semitism remain a mystery. He speaks of not having met a Jew until he arrived in Vienna, and that at first his attitude was liberal and tolerant. When he first encountered the anti-semitic press, he says, he dismissed it as unworthy of serious consideration. Later he accepted the same anti-semitic views, which became crucial in his program of national reconstruction.

Mein Kampf has also been studied as a work on political theory. For example, Hitler announces his hatred of what he believed to be the world's twin evils: Communism and Judaism. The new territory that Germany needed to obtain would properly nurture the "historic destiny" of the German people; this goal, which Hitler referred to as Lebensraum (living space), explains why Hitler aggressively expanded Germany eastward, specifically the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland, before he launched his attack against Russia. In Mein Kampf Hitler openly states that the future of Germany "has to lie in the acquisition of land in the East at the expense of Russia."^[7]

In his work, Hitler blamed Germany’s chief woes on the parliament of the Weimar Republic, the Jews, and Social Democrats, as well as Marxists. He announced that he wanted to completely destroy the parliamentary system, believing it in principle to be corrupt, as those who reach power are inherent opportunists.