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No Israeli targets off-limits, Hamas spiritual chief warns
St. Petersburg Times correspondent Flore de Preneuf interviewed Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, in his Gaza Strip home last week. The question and answer session occurred two days after Israel assassinated six Hamas members, including two of its top leaders, and accidentally killed two children, 8 and 10 years old, by firing missiles at a seven-story building in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Limiting stem cells could cut options
Most researchers say it could take hundreds of embryonic cell lines to harvest the full benefit of cell therapy.

WWF Smackdown
In the case of the warm and fuzzies versus the wild and well-oiled, it's the animals -- the four-legged type -- who have come out on top.National headlines
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