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...Haggett believes she has reason to hope her organization will be part of a lasting trend: According to Catholic tradition, she says, practice becomes custom and custom becomes law. "You can see examples of that happening everywhere," she explains. "The mass used to be only in Latin, now it?s in the vernacular. Once only boys could serve on the altar, now girls do as well. Before the changes actually happen, and they?re just suggested, everyone says, oh, no, that?s terrible, you can?t do that...
...medically dangerous and morally repugnant. The problem was how to do it in a way that did not also outlaw all kinds of other promising research that relies on some of the same techniques. The stakes could not be much higher--Will we or will we not allow the custom-creation of children?--and the outcome was never much in doubt. But as a preview of battles to come, the debate signaled just how hard it is to write laws about issues so complex, values so transcendent and interests so competing; and it revealed what kinds of moral trades politicians...
...company's first completely new model in a half-century, aims to change all that. "This is the first departure from their traditional customer base," says Don Brown, a motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims...
...pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held its first yard sale to raise cash...
...Segue to Striver's Row and this artfully appointed store carrying women's garments in sizes 2 to 22. Carefully chosen designs retail from $40 to custom wear at $500. A hot pink sequined top by Custo of Barcelona ($88) was only one of the "just right" accessories and fashion. Ask about upcoming shopping tours of Harlem...