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...Offset the Pain. Benefit cuts will probably be necessary to keep Social Security solvent as the number of retirees grows. The appeal of private accounts might persuade voters to accept the trade...
...unwanted," she says. "That is shameful." Germany's Jews accept that changes must be made, but insist they be consulted. For now, policymakers and the Jewish community have agreed to lower the volume and jointly honor the 6 million dead. - By William Boston Temporary Sanity SPAIN Spanish AIDS campaigners were surprised and delighted when Father Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, secretary-general of the Spanish Catholic Church's Episcopal Conference, appeared to reverse Church policy by approving the use of condoms to combat the spread of the disease. But less than 24 hours later - following reports that Camino...
...study from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, there is no agreement about how prospective parents should be screened. It's a far cry, says Penn's Art Caplan, director of the center and co-author of the study, from what we accept in assessing the fitness of adoptive parents. ART candidates aren't evaluated in any systematic way (except to determine whether they can pay). The study reported that fewer than 20% of ART specialists even bothered with assessments by psychologists or social workers. One-third of the doctors said they would have...
...scientists who support I.D. makes it reasonable to suspect that Scott's assertion is correct: intelligent design is just a smoke screen for those who think evolution is somehow ungodly. And that appalls the many scientists and science teachers who believe in evolution and also believe in God. "I accept evolution as the best scientific explanation for life as we know it," says Jeremy Mohn, a self-described "very religious" Methodist who teaches biology at Blue Valley Northwest High School, just a few minutes' drive from Bingman's school. "I also believe that God is ultimately responsible for the process...
Jennie Mather left biotech company Genentech also out of frustration when, she says, her bosses wouldn't accept her approach to fighting cancer. She argued that what really counts in a target protein--that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable--is the protein's surface. Because a body's natural antibodies do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to Genentech, whose scientists, she says, generally analyze a target's entire genetic structure. "They were just interested...