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...into trouble with the UAW, creditors,and suppliers as the two companies bargain to drop costs. The union says it gave plenty of concessions during the last set of contract negotiations. For cosmetic purposes, it may bend more but is probably willing to gamble that the government will not allow the two car companies to go into bankruptcy and force the loss of hundreds of thousand of jobs in an economy that is already battling rapidly rising unemployment...
...Southern California, helped write the original professional recommendations regarding embryo transfer. Although he decries the birth of triplets, he's irritated at calls to legislate assisted reproduction. Doctors aren't the problem, he contends; laws are. Some European countries limit the number of embryos transferred, but that doesn't allow for physicians to take into account individual medical histories; generally, the older the patient, the less likely embryos will implant...
...That doesn't mean, of course, that the new Israeli premier - probably Netanyahu - is going to listen. During his campaign this past week, he claimed that he would allow West Bank settlements to expand. (Last year, according to the Israeli human rights group Peace Now, settlements grew by 69% over the previous year.) If Netanyahu insists on refusing to close down the settlements, it may be the Israelis that the Obama Administration and Mitchell find themselves lecturing...
...milestone this month by cracking the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list with Contagious, a first for an author emerging from the podcast genre. The print run for Contagious is 80,000 copies and it has made the bestseller list despite Sigler's getting his reluctant publisher to allow him to put out PDF files and podcasts of chapters of the book for free on his website. So far, he has podcast eight chapters...
...march inexorably toward an uncontrollable determinism. According to this view, once we are fully cognizant of our biology, our thoughts and desires can be predicted, and therefore no longer belong to us. We will not fall in love, but rather possess a body in which environmental stimuli allow the activation and repression of certain genes, leading to the release of hormones that produce perceived feelings...