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Bush will appoint doctors, lawyers and ethicists to a panel on bioethics to advise him on stem cells, cloning and other ethical quagmires of the brave new world. Dr. Leon Kass, who helped Bush make this decision, will lead the council...
...Yeltsin was not only brave; he was very lucky. The world's media focused on the crowds outside the Russian White House, where he was holed up. The atmosphere there was indeed inspiring -thousands of people prepared to shield with their bodies their last hope for change. Yet these many thousand people were a tiny fraction of the city's population, And there were few such demonstrations in other cities and towns across the USSR. Most people were sitting and waiting. Would the military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have...
...Eventually they simply become a nuisance factor. But the economic context in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example, is quite different. Macedonia's fragile peace has plenty of potentially fatal flaws that could cause its collapse, and the stagnant economy hardly provides a reassuring foundation for the brave new state envisaged in the political agreement. And while economics has little direct impact on the fact that Israel and the Palestinians are moving daily further away from a return to the peace process, the near-total collapse of the Palestinian economy makes prospects for its revival even more remote...
...roll of the dice could create a new generation of aged poor--and the Dow and NASDAQ have recently been acting like Democratic allies. So the party dug in its heels last week, as Senate majority leader Tom Daschle called the report "biased, misleading and flat-out wrong." That brave stand masks a weakness. Party leaders privately admit they can no longer count on their members to automatically oppose Bush on fiscal matters...
...much of its modern history, of course, Beijing has had that power: most Chinese could only get broadcasts by the communist government, except those on the border of foreign countries or the brave souls who listened surreptitiously to shortwave radios. But in the decade since satellite television blossomed in Asia, all that has changed: foreign broadcasters are eager to get into the China market, Beijing is willing to have them (if it can control content) and the market is one of the world's biggest plums. Whether China will actually allow direct-to-viewer foreign television transmissions is another matter...