CDC reports "dramatic drop" in U.S. teen birth rates.
- a dramatic 22% decrease in comparison to 1991.
"The continued decline in the teen birth rate is very
encouraging news" Secretary of Health and Human Services
Tommy Thompson said in a statement. (Reuters)
War? "Overall, just between 1990 and 1997, the global
export market for the heaviest conventional weapons
and military systems declined 44% in real terms to
$30 billion dollars" (Red Herring Aug 1,2001 pg. 52)
Russia and the US recently started discussing a huge
reduction in nuclear arms - from 7000 down to 2000 each
Medicine - FDA approval of the new 'bionic ear' may
come later this year - can give real hearing to profoundly
deaf people.
Experiments were announced to test a new 'retinal chip'
- smaller than the head of a pin, to be seated within
the eye. Results to be announced later this year.
Adult stem cells can change into kidney cells. " The
finding opens up the possibility of mobilizing a patients'
own bone marrow stem cells to repair or replace kidney
cells destroyed through disease or injury" (Reuters)
Reuters also reports experiments with injecting myelin
growing cells into MS patients to repair neurological
damage.
I can't claim all these experiments will prove successful but
we are clearly entering an age of miracles. When I tell JWs
I know, they always reply "yeh, but Jehovah won't let them
go much farther!"
Little by little, their misplaced confidence will be chipped
away.
metatron