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...urge all students interested in these challenging questions to attend Dr. Leon Kass’s lecture on “Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity,” tomorrow night in William James Hall at 8 p.m. Dr. Kass is the chair of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics. He is also an articulate and compelling opponent of embryonic stem-cell research. You might not agree with his (or my) conclusions, and that’s fine. But at the very least, I hope you’ll come away with a more complete...
...high point; officials in both countries will explore new trade frontiers elsewhere. It's premature to call it a once-in-a-lifetime deal. But here's a rare instance where doors on opposite sides of the globe could soon open to the profit-hungry, dynamic, brave and creative Australians and Americans who help keep the world trading system alive...
...What’s troubling is that the groups that brought Mrs. Hiller were pretending as though refusing to serve in the Israeli Army was a brave appeal to humanitarian standards,” Trager said. “If anything, it’s an affront to the Israeli democracy and affront to the very humanitarian means through which it is fighting Palestinian terror in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...culture. "Every San Francisco politician supports it, and then they run and hide when they get in office," he says. "That's why politicians are unpopular. We're always looking for a leader who speaks his conscience, and then when he does, we say, 'Boy, that was brave, but a little risky. Let's find someone more safe...
...been cloned flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bouncing off satellites ... It was the start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization...