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...Virginia fertility clinic are growing human embryos with the intent of harvesting stem cells have provoked widespread hand-wringing, among both advocates and opponents of stem cell research. Advocates worry that publicizing such a blatant and systematic cell harvesting procedure can only harden hearts against the science; in the crude terms of public relations, using stem cells from discarded embryos is one thing, but purposefully creating an embryo only to dismantle it is something else altogether. Opponents of the research see the Virginia clinic?s methodology as the best indication yet that we are carelessly sliding down the slippery slope...
There's rich irony here. Until this case, officials in Washington and Brussels had boasted that competition policy was an area of splendid cooperation across the Atlantic. Moreover, Monti is about the least likely man in Brussels to be motivated by crude anti-Americanism. Indeed, he was offered the job of Foreign Minister in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, conservative America's favorite European. In any event, GE competitors opposed to the deal are--like UTC--just as likely to be American as European. Airbus, Europe's flagship aviation company, says it supported the GE-Honeywell deal. I understand...
SpectorSoft has sold 35,000 copies of its spyware, and it has only a piece of a booming market. WinWhatWhere, another big player, sells primarily to businesses, but what it calls the "disgruntled spouse" market has been finding WinWhatWhere. Many smaller companies have sites that sell relatively crude "keyloggers," software that records every keystroke typed on a computer...
...current 3.4% pace. "The balance of power is shifting away from employees to employers," says Berner, "and we'll see that in terms of pay gains and the kinds of jobs that are available." Any drops in energy costs will also help keep inflation in check. Dudley expects crude-oil prices to fall from $28 a bbl. at present to "the low 20s" this summer, a decline that will deliver "a positive energy shock...
Richardson also urges the Administration to drop its laissez-faire stance toward OPEC and exert pressure on the cartel to raise exports of crude oil. OPEC voted this month to maintain its output at 24.2 million barrels a day. But it will meet again in July to consider raising prices if Iraq continues to withhold oil from the market as part of a running dispute with the U.N. over sanctions...