Word: closers
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...Several nights ago on ABC Evening News, an in-depth "Closer Look" segment was devoted to Newman's patent. The report was largely one-sided (more 1984 than 1998), featuring the fears and rants of ethicist and frequent scientific critic Jeremy Rifkin, who charged that society threatens to "play God" by creating human chimerical animals...
...regulating the production of chimeras as closer study may demand and not abandoning this avenue of scientific pursuit as the spirit of Newman's patent advises, we raise the very distinct possibility of developing a more universally acceptable (and beneficial) middle ground...
Sophomore closer Mike Madden struck out four in one and one-third innings to nail down the win, earning his second save of the season and helping the Crimson close out a three-win road week-end to open the Ivy title defense...
That fact alone made the discovery important. But on closer examination, scientists found something even more remarkable: not only had the mini-dino's bones survived (save those of the lower legs and tail), but so, evidently, had some of the tissues inside. As described in the current issue of the journal Nature, the dinosaur, almost certainly a baby, has significant amounts of its intestines and liver still intact, along with muscles and the cartilage that once housed its windpipe--"details of soft anatomy never seen previously in any dinosaur," write Italian paleontologists Cristiano Dal Sasso and Marco Signore...
...legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal act by the child. It's more concrete." Florida passed the first CAP law in 1989, and 14 other states have...