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...Thursday hearing that it's possible Iraq "could move toward a civil war" wasn't the only coup Senate Democrats scored. The same day they also managed to plant another political time bomb, which could explode in the next three or four months over George Bush's conduct of the war, by winning approval for a new National Intelligence Estimate focusing on Iraq's growing sectarian violence...
...system must adapt to the realities of today's world. We have to be ready to conduct necessary changes to adapt to the present world conditions-- without renouncing our ideas and without renouncing our objectives. What we are doing will continue. The commitments we make here now will be fulfilled. There is no going back...
Beyond that, the Bush Administration's with-us-or-against-us policy has cut off avenues of diplomacy that would be useful to pursue in this crisis. In the last major outbreak of Israel-Hizballah fighting in 1996, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher conducted shuttle diplomacy, traveling to, among other places, Syria, which along with Iran sponsors Hizballah. Having persuaded the Syrians to rein in Hizballah, Christopher achieved a cease-fire. Today the U.S. doesn't conduct high-level talks with Damascus principally because of Syria's ties to various terrorist groups...
...been differentiated reliably enough that they could be safely transplanted into people, although animal studies with human cells are under way. Not surprisingly, the groups closest to human trials are in the biotech industry, which operates without government funds. Geron claims it is close to filing for permission to conduct the first human trials relying on ESC-based therapy. It is using stem cells to create oligodendroglial progenitor cells, which produce neurons and provide myelin insulation for the long fingers that extend out from the body of a nerve cell. Lanza's group is also close to filing...
...Testimony from Wyler and another former FLDS member, Richard Holm, coupled with birth certificates, swayed a Mohave County jury on July 7 to find Fischer guilty of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Wyler and Holm testified in court on how polygamous marriages work and gave eyewitness accounts of Fischer and the girl's "flirtatious behavior." But the verdict was unusual - and, to critics of the alleged abuses in polygamous marriages, especially significant - in that it came without the testimony of the alleged victims. In the FLDS community that populates the twin...