To: Walkingshadow who wrote (4563 ) 2/3/2005 9:44:29 AM From: Jill Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8752 Terry, GERN has a lot of patents, whether they can hold up I don't know...and recently took an Asian woman paralyzed from spinal cord injury for 20 years and she was able to walk (stem cells). It wasn't as big news as it should have been. Odd. This, like ALNY, is early days and the worry is whether they will get eaten up and spit out by bigger companies. Thanx for the charts. Beautiful sources--Shakespeare & Solomon. Brings to mind a Joseph Conrad quote I've been sending around lately, which is perhaps a little more encouraging :) --- I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. I would fondly believe that its object is purely spectacular: a spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view - and in this view alone - never for despair! Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves. The rest is our affair - the laughter, the tears, the tenderness, the indignation, the high tranquillity of a steeled heart, the detached curiosity of a subtle mind - that's our affair!...fate has perhaps engaged nothing of us except our conscience, gifted with a voice in order to bear true testimony to the visible wonder, the haunting terror, the infinite passion and the illimitable serenity; to the supreme law and the abiding mystery of the sublime spectacle. --- Meanwhile, PD is coming down again. I see it hasn't come up on any screens here but for a while now its been trading in about a $10 range, and I've done a few trades. I'll watch it today. Lately its gone down to about 92 and then up to 100, break 100 but not hold...it could of course go lower than 92 too.