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...week ago, Obama announced that he would lift President George W. Bush’s ban on stem cell research. The announcement set the chattering classes aflame. House minority leader John Boehner accused Obama of “further dividing our nation at a time when we need greater unity.” A senior U.S. cardinal called it a “sad victory of politics over science and ethics.” Others, many of whom support stem cell research, responded with particular fervor to Obama’s claim that he was putting science before politics...
...trust the Shi'ite-led government and wants all of the detainees immediately released, even "the minority" they acknowledge might be al-Qaeda members. "Even if you released an al-Qaeda emir [leader], he won't be able to wreak havoc in the same way he did three years ago," says Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Front, citing improvements in the Iraqi security forces and their intelligence gathering capabilities. "The problem," he adds, "is that some detainees are going to be transferred from a prison that, to a certain degree, respects human rights, to another that doesn...
...used as a metric to measure progress or regression in the counter-insurgency effort in Iraq. The definition of a sig act, however, is not fixed. According to some soldiers, some sig acts today (those without fatalities, say) never would have been considered as such a year or two ago. And the value of the metric is a matter of contention, even on the record, among battalion commanders. The Lieutenant Colonel responsible for East Mosul says it is an excellent, valuable metric for progress, while his counterpart in West Mosul says the opposite. (See pictures of the U.S. military...
...Just a few years ago, when an economic boom was pulling a flood of Western professionals into Singapore, a Western face in a working-class neighborhood like Bukit Panjang was a rare sight. According to investment bank Credit Suisse, Singapore's population grew 18%, to about 4.8 million, from 2004 to 2008. More than three-quarters of that growth, Credit Suisse estimates, came from newly arrived foreigners taking lucrative positions at expanding private banks, oil-exploration firms and shipping companies. Foreigners filled 61% of the 796,000 jobs created in Singapore during that four-year period...
...hours a day six days a week, tossing dirt into big piles that are then raked by hand. Hampering their job is 15 ft. of fill dirt that was spread across the uneven terrain by the developers to bring it up to subdivision standards, probably a couple of years ago...