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Memorial service marks passing of John Lindsay (Parkinson's) NEW YORK -- Five weeks after his death, former New York Mayor John Lindsay was remembered Friday at a Manhattan memorial service as "the signature New Yorker" -- a man equally at ease in the Broadway spotlight or a Harlem street corner. http://www.bergen.com/region/lindsay27200101278.htm Medical research by students at Montreal's four major universities is crucial to improving our health-care system and finding cures for some of the most debilitating conditions faced by an aging population. So why are student researchers paid so little? http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010128/5078361.html Bush Abortion History Repeating Itself - It really is déjà vu all over again: http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-23/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-96962.asp Saturday, January 27, 2001 When it comes to abortion, President Bush should listen to his wife, Laura. She is a lot closer to the sensible center than his political advisers, who seem to be pushing him rightward and out of the mainstream. http://www.sltrib.com/01272001/commenta/66137.htm Saturday, January 27, 2001 Bush Opposes Use of Aborted Tissue Science: Reviving the abortion debate for the second time this week, the president didn't say whether he'd fight federal funding for promising, yet problematic, medical research. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010127/t000007895.html LONDON (AP) -- While American scientists pioneered the recent advances in the revolutionary field of stem cell research, Britain leapfrogged ahead to become the first country to legalize human cloning for such experiments. http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0101/24_abortion-ap.html Fertility Doc Plans to Clone Humans Italian made announcement with U.S. cohort San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, January 28, 2001 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/28/MN163202.DTL Sunday, January 28, 2001 'Genie Out of the Bottle' on Human Cloning WASHINGTON--A well-known Italian fertility specialist and his U.S. colleague have announced plans to clone human beings, apparently becoming the first scientists with expertise in human reproduction to publicly set such a goal. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010128/t000008216.html ***************