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Without discounting the moral concerns that some Americans have about using embryos - which many consider to be fully realized human life - for scientific research, Obama said that moral values do not necessarily preclude the study of embryonic stem cells, particularly those obtained from the pool of 400,000 or so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Cheer Obama's Vote for Stem-Cell Science | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

Traveling in India and China, I cannot help but feel that some life is cheap there. The agrarian poor do not benefit from investment, and the backward castes are left behind. It is nauseating to think how much genius lies fallow between the Indus and Yellow Rivers. It is even...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 2 | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

If we truly care about making our campus’s theater as diverse as possible, we must consider that the possibilities of theatrical opportunities are in fact equal and open and that some students are simply not taking advantage of all available prospects. Perhaps some actors, directors, and technicians...

Author: By Benjamin K. Glaser | Title: The New Era Is Now | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

Currently fuel-economy standards are set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But President Obama, moving to fulfill one of his campaign promises to the state of California, has asked the EPA to consider revising Bush-era rulings so California can impose its own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California and Detroit Go to War over Gas Mileage | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

Whitehouse's optimism was confirmed a few minutes later by Scott Seroto, the president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a representative of the industry that had funded the "Harry and Louise" ads in 1994. "Consider that the past," he said of the ads. "We are embracing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Stands Aside, Slightly, at Health Summit | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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