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Among the measures being employed, arguably the most popular is the "driver's license system," whereby parents must sign a consent form before their children can go online...
...controversy, however, most of it centered on tricky questions of privacy. Short tandem repeat technology is so sensitive that it can identify DNA from little more than the saliva residue on a soda can. "A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "No one wants someone snooping into...
...proceedings, berated by the judge and derided by the prosecution for courtroom gaffes and blunders. Kevorkian discovered, for example, that he couldn't call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing that the ex-pathologist had only been relieving the suffering...
Above all, Milosevic is a crafty autocrat. He relies exclusively on his own judgment, and little is done without his consent. While other institutions of state exist--a government, an elected Chamber of Citizens, ministries--he has limited their capacity to function. Only the police force works--an organization full of "his guys" that is exhausting in its myriad forms of harassment. The state is Slobodan Milosevic...
...DETECTING PC? Even when a liar wags his finger, his voice will betray him. That's the premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...