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...patients and voters who struggle to weigh the arguments because the science is dense and the values tangled. Somewhere between the flat-earthers who would gladly stop progress and the swashbucklers who disdain limits are people who approve of stem-cell research in general but get uneasy as we approach the ethical frontiers. Adult-stem-cell research is morally fine but clinically limiting, since only embryonic cells possess the power to replicate indefinitely and grow into any of more than 200 types of tissue. Extracting knowledge from embryos that would otherwise be wasted is one thing, but scientists admit that...
...get around political roadblocks, scientists are searching for another source of cells that is less ethically troublesome, ideally one that involves no embryo destruction at all. One approach is "altered nuclear transfer," in which a gene, known as CDX2, would be removed before the cell is fused with the egg. That would ensure that the embryo lives only long enough to produce stem cells and then dies. That strategy, promoted by Dr. William Hurlbut, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, has its critics. Dr. Robert Lanza of biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology considers it unethical to deliberately...
...question that for Mann, and the genre, the docudrama approach was mostly an excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann...
Shlomo Ben-Ami, the Israeli foreign minister during the time of the Camp David talks, took a more historical approach. Recounting years of the region’s history and America’s involvement in it, Ben-Ami directly rebutted Walt and Mearsheimer’s central thesis. He argued that U.S. support for Israel was strategic and historical, and not attributable to the power of the pro-Israel lobby...
Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch then proclaimed that Hezbollah’s missile launches ought to be blamed on the pride festivities. An Arab-Israeli member of Knesset fired further, not only noting causality, but promising it: “If they [gays] will dare to approach the Temple Mount during the parade, they will do so over our dead bodies...