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...observers in the two Germanys. Out of the four-hour meeting, arranged by the State Department, came no apology and no promise of compensation by the Soviets, only that these issues would be referred to a "higher authority" in Moscow. But the Soviets did offer one important concession: a ban on the "use of force or weapons" against American liaison mission patrols or personnel...
...Years since the Food and Drug Administration banned silicone implants for breast enhancement, citing health concerns; the agency meets this week to discuss lifting the ban...
...Rather than ban cloning for stem cell research, the governor should join the Legislature in banning human reproductive cloning, limiting the length of time that research embryos can be grown in the lab, and restricting the commodification of eggs to prevent the exploitation of women,” Sandel wrote. “Such regulations are the friend, not the foe, of responsible science...
...When the Taliban seized power, one of their first edicts was to ban music. They ransacked the Afghan Radio and Television station, decorating nearby trees and rosebushes with streamers of ripped-out audiotape. (Brave technicians, however, sealed thousands of Afghan records and tapes behind a false wall at the studio, which the Taliban never found.) "We were afraid that the Taliban would kill us," recalls Mirwais' older brother Nur-ul-Haq, a tabla player who says dozens of artists were beaten in public by Taliban zealots. So the family buried their musical instruments under a chicken coop in the garden...
...book came out against contraception, and Karol Wojtyla went on to draft much of the language in Pope Paul VI's controversial 1968 directive reiterating that church prohibition. (Although many U.S. Catholics have long ignored the ban, some found their anger reignited in the 1990s when the Pope opposed AIDS-containment programs because of their use of condoms.) As Pope, he irritated both abortion-rights and population activists at a 1994 U.N. conference in Cairo by insisting on passing language that stated, "In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning." In 1988 the Pope, despite...