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...Kefauver in 1952 to John McCain in 2000, but Lieberman seems to be a classic case of honor without profit. For one thing, Howard Dean locked up the maverick vote with his timely opposition to the war. For another, Lieberman's belief that removing Saddam Hussein would start a benign chain of events in the region seems imprudent now, given the deteriorating situation on the ground in Iraq. But there's something else about Lieberman--a sweet, soft, caramel quality--that makes him an unlikely firebrand. Even when he attacks his opponents, as he has done quite effectively in debates...
...technique developed by Dr. James Grifo at New York University, Dr. Zhuang Guanglun of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou took the patient's fertilized egg, scooped out the chromosome-bearing nuclear material and put it in a donated egg whose nucleus had been removed. In this more benign environment, development proceeded normally, and the woman became pregnant with triplets who carried a mix of her DNA and her husband's--pretty much like any normal baby...
...proof is on Measure of a Man, which is the rare pop album completely free of innuendo, let alone sex. Instead of adding edge lyrically, Davis and another A.-and-R. executive, Steve Ferrera, were forced to play with Aiken's sound, using crunchy power chords in place of benign synth pads and encouraging Aiken to put some power into his ballads. Says Aiken: "I'm very satisfied with my album. I grew as a singer, and Clive deserves a lot of the credit for that...
...laboratory, to be called the National Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biodefense, is one of two new national biocontainment facilities to receive NIAID funding. Most research on deadly pathogens takes place on agents in their molecular or benign forms, Kasper said. But researchers often find it necessary to conduct tests on biological agents in their whole, dangerous states as their studies become more refined—a requirement that fired Harvard’s interest in the proposed BU facility, said Medical School Associate Dean for Public Affairs Don L. Gibbons...
...starters, she argues, Nixon’s and Khruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...