Message-ID: <29960567.1075858596603.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:20:10 -0700 (PDT) From: lists@corp.law.com To: newswire-html@majordomo.law.com Subject: Today's Legal News, October 25, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "law.com" X-To: newswire-html@majordomo.law.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged)\Taylor, Mark E (Legal)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Taylor-M X-FileName: MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged).pst A D V E R T I S E M E N T [IMAGE] =09 =09[IMAGE] =09 =09career center seminars legal newswire customer service = free email =09 October 25, 2001 =09 =09 [IMAGE] O Pioneers! Corporate Counsel Before the country united in the a= ftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, embryonic stem cell research wa= s one of its most divisive issues. But far from the bitter debate over embr= yos, there is great hope for stem cells taken from another source: mature, = or "adult," tissue. 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U.S. District Judge Col= leen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Columbia said she sold all her famil= y's technology holdings between Jan. 1 and Sept. 28 to avoid potential ethi= cal conflicts. Full Text Pennsylvania's Post & Schell Has Mail Scare T= he Legal Intelligencer Philadelphia-based Post & Schell was forced to shut = down its Harrisburg, Pa., office for three days last week after a mailroom = employee opened an envelope containing a white, powdery substance. The firm= notified authorities, who deemed the substance a "credible threat." All of= the firm's employees were tested for exposure to any kind of dangerous sub= stance, but authorities ultimately determined the powder was not anthrax. 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