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...protecting the lives of human embryos does not require that we abandon all stem cell research or ignore the sufferings of those who could benefit from it. It simply demands that we focus our efforts on supporting ethically sound means to obtain the ends we desire. Research on the possible medical uses of stem cells is still in its inchoate stages, and there are a number of avenues open for exploration. Adult stem cells and placental stem cells, which can be obtained without killing a human being, also have great potential for use in medical treatments. Rather than using government...
...Northern Alliance. The reported capture and execution of legendary mujahedeen commander Abdul Haq by the Taliban on Friday deals a blow to efforts to forge an anti-Taliban coalition in the movement's own heartland. Opposition leaders remain confident that much of the Taliban will abandon their leaders once serious fighting begins, but the tide has clearly not yet turned...
When they came to see Of A Revolution (OAR) last Wednesday night at the Roxy, they came to abandon something. For one evening, they came to let go of the details of their lives, the clutter of things and people that bind them to place and to the inertia of their day-to-day existence. They threw themselves into the rhythm and followed it wherever it took them. And for a few brief moments, they actually believed they were lost, that there was nowhere and nothing but the music rising in them...
Lewis said yesterday that his Feb. 12 e-mail was a “collegial” attempt to persuade Mansfield to abandon his theory of grade inflation. His rhetoric was “uncharacteristic of policy declarations by deans” and was therefore taken out of context by the Globe, Lewis wrote in an e-mail...
...Casablancas did forward rolls with a beer in his hand while the band raucously played the introduction. He then spent the rest of the show staggering around the stage shaking beer bottles and throwing them aside, causing foamic eruptions. He kicked over the microphone stand with abandon and drunkenly fell into the ground, but kept his gravelly-yet-golden voice on key. He even mumbled something incoherently about his mind being “fucked” because of the removal of the song “NYC Cops” from the upcoming album due to the recent tragedies...