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Osama bin Laden: We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Shari'a [an Islamic legal code]. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam. Those who sympathize with the infidels-such as the PLO in Palestine or the so-called Palestinian Authority--have been trying for tens of years to get back some of their rights. They laid down arms and abandoned what is called violence and tried peaceful bargaining. What...
...Frei's demands that Pinochet be returned to Chile and his fate be decided by the Chileans. After all, the alleged crimes did not take place in England or Spain but in Chile. Thus British liberals are telling a presumably sovereign nation that territoriality doesn't count, that Chile cannot be trusted with its own political affairs. Colonialism is back. EDWARD KAUSEL Cambridge, Mass...
...easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot pay for it. We could do many more diseases if PGD were covered by insurance." In fact, insurance has become a central issue of this brave new world (see following story...
This means gene therapy cannot now be used to treat, for example, diabetics. If they were provided with a normal insulin gene that was always turned on, their insulin level would soon be dangerously high. "But the mechanism we have in mind," Wilson says, "will be like a genetic rheostat. The gene will not work until you take a pill, and the more pills you take, the more the gene will be expressed--and if you want to cut off the supply, you simply stop taking the pill...
...contrast, human cloning could, in theory, be used to obtain tissues needed to treat disorders such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. These diseases are associated with cell types that do not repair or replace themselves, but suitable cells will one day be grown in culture. These uses cannot be justified now; nor are they likely to be in the near future...