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July 20 (Bloomberg) -- A U.K. children's charity has brought
in extra staff to man its phone lines in expectation of a deluge
of calls from distraught youngsters if Harry Potter dies.

``Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'' the seventh and
final book in J.K. Rowling's series of adventures about the boy
wizard and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, goes on sale tomorrow.

``For many children, Harry Potter and his friends have
become a major part of their childhood,'' said Kate Trench, a
spokeswoman for ChildLine, based in London, which provides
telephone support services for children. ``Excitement could give
way to sadness for those caught up in the huge build-up to the
seventh and final book.''

Speculation about the book's ending has been rife after
Rowling admitted two characters perish, with many predicting that
Harry himself will die. The New York Times, which said it bought
a copy of the book this week in New York, described the ending as
``a big screen, bone-chilling confrontation,'' providing ``an
epilogue that clearly lays out people's fates.''

The charity deals with reactions to the fate of fictional
and real people alike, according to Trench. ``When boy band Take
That split up, hundreds of distraught children contacted
ChildLine,'' Trench said in a statement today. ``Last year we
spoke to more than 6,000 children about bereavement, and many
more may call this year in relation to death of characters in
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.''

TORONTO<!-- /dateline --> — A team of Canadian scientists has made a discovery about how human embryonic stem cells develop that could change the direction of research into what has been dubbed the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine.

Embryonic stem (ES) cells give rise to every tissue in the body — from the liver and heart to the bones and brain. Scientists around the world are working to understand how they might be harnessed to cure a wide variety of diseases, from growing a whole new organ to replacing brain cells damaged by Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us
with an entirely new way of understanding organization and
order. For most of its history, Western science has
labored under the bias that the best way to understand a
physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to
dissect it and study its respective parts.

A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe
may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to
take apart something constructed holographically, we will
not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get
smaller wholes.

This insight suggested to Bohm another way of
understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the
reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact
with one another regardless of the distance separating
them is not because they are sending some sort of
mysterious signal back and forth, but because their
separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper
level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but
are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.