SCIENTISTS, WHO for the first time have reversed the menopause, said yesterday that it was too early to judge whether the pioneering ovary graft operation would help other women. The embarrassing climbdown came just hours before the Nationwide was due to implement its threat to sue Barclays if its plans to impose a pounds 1 charge from next month were not withdrawn before 5pm.
After a meeting at Nationwide’s Swindon headquarters between John Varley, Barclays’ head of retail banking, and Brian Davis, the Nationwide chairman, Barclays agreed to delay implementing the charge.Mr Davis said after the meeting: “We believed that we had a good case. A COSTLY court battle between Barclays the high street bank and Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, over charges was narrowly averted yesterday when Barclays agreed to drop plans to charge other banks’ customers for using its 3,200 cash machines. “The result of that could be an orbit that is significantly different than the one planned and we may have our navigation predictions at the tracking station incorrect,” he said.The Mars Climate Orbiter’s science mission will last about two years, during which time it will provide detailed information about the planet’s atmospheric temperature, dust, water vapour and clouds.Nasa hopes to gather data on the atmospheric conditions on Mars through each of its seasons, and learn about past and future weather.. Nasa tried to update its predictions yesterday to see if it could track the spacecraft’s correct position using radio signals that take 11 minutes to travel the 122 million miles between Mars and Earth.However, Dr McNamee said that, based on the latest navigation results, the spacecraft was entering its corridor somewhat low. “The result of that could be an orbit that is significantly different than the one planned and we may have our navigation predictions at the tracking station incorrect,” Dr McNamee said. It was part of a manoeuvre designed to send the spacecraft into a large elliptical orbit and so avoid crashing into the planet’s surface or missing the orbital path completely and being sent into deep space.”We know we had a functioning spacecraft going into the Mars orbit-insertion burn We know the burn started on time.

We saw five minutes of it before it went behind the planet, but from that point on we’ve had no contact from the spacecraft,” Dr McNamee said.One theory is that the orbiter, launched in December, may have entered its orbital corridor at a lower than expected angle. Scientists at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said contact was broken when the orbiter went behind Mars yesterday morning but they were hoping to be able to regain radio links during the satellite’s subsequent orbits.
John McNamee, Mars Surveyor project manager, said the craft may have entered orbit on a different track than the one predicted by scientists. They were attempting to locate its course.The orbiter’s main engine fired for 16 minutes to slow down the spacecraft from its interplanetary speed of 12,300mph to its orbiting velocity of 9,840mph. The Mars Climate Orbiter was undergoing “aerobraking” to take it into orbit around the Red Planet when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in California lost radio links. SPACE SCIENTISTS fought desperately to regain contact with the first interplanetary weather satellite yesterday as it hurtled towards Mars. “We do take into account the individual human rights record of the country alongside the advice of the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence,” it said in a statement.. In 1997 more than 20 armoured combat vehicles and four aircraft worth pounds 112m were sold to the Jakarta regime.

The department, Amnesty added, even approved four licences, including two to Indonesia, against the recommendation of the Department for International Development.The Department of Trade and Industry yesterday denied it disregarded human rights violations. In a damning annual audit of British foreign policy, the human rights group accused the Department of Trade and Industry of being seriously out of step with the policies advocated by Tony Blair and Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary.”The Department of Trade and Industry in particular is not meeting its responsibility to promote trade in a manner which is not harmful to human rights,” the report said.
Amnesty said it accepted that in the two years since Labour came to power, there had been a “genuine and active commitment to human rights in a number of areas”.But it said that during Labour’s first year in office it approved 64 licences for arms exports to Indonesia. THE GOVERNMENT’S “ethical” foreign policy is being undermined by its efforts to promote the sale of arms to regimes such as Indonesia’s, which use the weapons for repression and torture, Amnesty International said yesterday. We fully support this battle.”The Department of Social Security said: “It would be inappropriate to say anything further until the judges of the European Court give their ruling on the case.”The Government’s winter fuel payments to pensioners total pounds 200m a year Lowering the age for men would add pounds 20m..