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...unemployment fall by that time too, Republicans believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more modest program, remain critical: "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumed Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. Reckless or not, the plan is likely to move rapidly through the House of Representatives, where the Republicans are comfortably in control. The Senate will be tougher, since moderate Republicans also worry about the size...
...believable as the Raelians’ previous pronouncements that its leader communicated with extraterrestrials. The company had no prior experience with cloning, and the published literature shows that success in cloning mammals is extremely rare. Cloning a human requires using genetic information stored in a mature cell from an adult. But such cells, which are specialized for specific tasks, have lost much of their ability to direct the development of a normal human. In cloned mice, for example, five percent of all genes are turned on and off improperly...
Tobacco reformers have promoted this war as a boon to asthmatics. In the last 25 years, 40 million Americans have quit the habit and it has been severely restricted. During this period, however, adult asthma rates have increased 75 percent and children’s 160 percent...
...universally been observed that tobacco lessens the appetite and enables people to go for long periods without food. The 1988 Surgeon General’s Report acknowledged this phenomenon. The American adult smoking rate is half of what it was in 1960 and, not surprisingly, the incidence of severe weight problems has more than doubled. Diabetes and obesity-related cancers have also increased, to a large extent, due to the decline in smoking rates. Many Americans now resort to dangerous and costly surgery to treat obesity...
...that trip a couple weeks later, and thinking, ‘I left the river to do something,’” he says. “I could see a shape to the previous fifteen years, this sort of shape of my adult choices: trying to make a family, trying to make a career, trying to have life in the world. I was unaware that that’s why I had left the river, but that was clearly the reason...