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...House Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his budget, offering some GOP hard-liners an opportunity to air their concerns about his proposal to relax most sanctions on Iraq while tightening the arms embargo. Powell touted the policy during his tour of Middle Eastern capitals two weeks ago, prompting some alarm among conservatives over the appearance of going soft on Saddam. Even within the Bush administration, there is considerable support for a more aggressive policy aimed at overthrowing the dictator, primarily by funneling support to the opposition Iraqi National Congress. Iraq hawks may demand at least a quid...
Anyone who's been reading the papers or watching the news in the last few months knows that, economically speaking, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Pundits who once breathlessly exhorted the virtues of the New Economy now sound the alarm. "Danger ahead," they say. Some Really Smart People, like Alan Greenspan, have even begun cautiously dusting off that dreaded R-word from the early '90s: recession...
...messy middle are the vast majority of people who view the prospect with a vague alarm, an uneasy sense that science is dragging us into dark woods with no paths and no easy way to turn back. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly but has come out publicly against human cloning, was not trying to help sheep have genetically related children. "He was trying to help farmers produce genetically improved sheep," notes ethicist Erik Parens of the Hastings Center in New York state. "And surely that's how the technology will go with us too." Cloning, Parens says...
...worst of all worlds - one when inflation is going up, and economic growth is going down. That's stagflation, which we saw in the '70s, and it really ties the Fed's hands in terms of what it can do. It's way too early to sound the alarm on that just yet. But for the markets, it's on their radar screen...
...messy middle are the vast majority of people who view the prospect with a vague alarm, an uneasy sense that science is dragging us into dark woods with no paths and no easy way to turn back. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly but has come out publicly against human cloning, was not trying to help sheep have genetically related children. "He was trying to help farmers produce genetically improved sheep," notes Hastings Center ethicist Erik Parens. "And surely that's how the technology will go with us too." Cloning, Parens says, "is not simply this isolated technique...