Seems that umbilical cord blood banking in India received some starry recognition recently. There's also a rather informative general discussion about it on Slashdot.
I haven't made up my mind about it yet, but I am pretty sure it's all a waste of money for the following reasons:
Currently reading a wonderful article by Marvin Minsky - Why people think computers can't. Got caught up in one point that he puts forth:
We tend to think of learning as something that just happens to us, like a sponge getting soaked. But learning really is a growing mass of skills …
http://kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/latest.html
Discovered today that KT has gone inactive now. I had stopped visiting the site after I noticed it hadn't been updated for weeks. Zack says he's taking a break, but the last sentence sounds rather ominous ... "Hopefully Kernel Traffic will not be missed too …
This one's gonna be long. You have been warned! ;)