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LEAVE SPOT ALONE Are extreme makeovers a form of animal cruelty? The mayor of West Hollywood, Calif., wants to ban tail docking, ear cropping and all other "noncurative" cosmetic pet surgeries...
...Still, unification pots could become a scarce commodity. After meeting in Washington with members of Bush's national security team last week, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon said economic engagement with the North would be reduced to a "humanitarian level" until the nuclear question is resolved. (The U.S. is also continuing food aid to starving North Koreans, despite the crisis.) But the policy shift?which would have been a major one?was fleeting. A day later, the South Korean Unification Ministry official in charge of the Kaesong project, Cho Myung Kyun, seemed to contradict Ban, saying "no particular...
Many of the episodes focus on America's largely forgotten treatment of its Japanese immigrants through a series of execrable laws. (Japanese immigrants were not allowed citizenship until 1952.) One episode focuses on the San Francisco initiative to ban all Asians from public school. Years later, in 1994, California's proposition 187 (later found unconstitutional) banned illegal immigrants from receiving publicly funded services such as schooling. In another semi-comic retelling of an actual incident, Charlie and Frank, working on a farm outside the city, get herded out of town by angry, armed white locals. Another fascinating sequence involves Charlie...
...stem cells. As a dozen other states consider similar proposals, the competition between states for the companies conducting stem cell research is quickening. But even though Massachusetts has not yet considered opening its coffers to stem cell research, Gov. W. Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he will seek to ban a crucial method of stem cell research in Massachusetts. We implore the Massachusetts state legislature to defeat Romney’s proposal so that embryonic stem cell research can continue unhindered in Massachusetts...
Furthermore, the proposed restrictions would curtail a vital aspect of embryonic stem cell research. A large portion of embryonic stem cell research is currently conducted on discarded embryos from fertility clinics, and the proposed rules would not affect this research. Instead, Romney has asked the legislature to ban the cloning of nuclear material, that is, the insertion of foreign DNA into a host egg. Scientists believe that mastering this technique is crucial for any stem cell therapy to eventually be realized, since any tissues grown from stem cells—the ultimate goal of stem cell research—need...