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...vitro fertilization. The bill contains a number of safeguards aimed at ensuring that it would apply only to embryos that would otherwise have been discarded. It stipulates that the embryos must have been created by individuals seeking fertility treatment and who then discovered that they had produced "in excess of the clinical need." It also requires that those donors give permission for the embryos to be used in stem-cell research, and forbids them from receiving any compensation...
First, the good news: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week recommended closing far fewer military bases than had been expected. (Despite initial estimates of a military bloated by 20% to 25% in excess capacity, the Pentagon, after factoring in the need to accommodate 70,000 soldiers returning from overseas, determined that only 5% to 10% needs trimming.) But the bad news depends, now more than ever, on where the bases are located. Rumsfeld proposed closing 33 of the Pentagon's 318 major military bases, along with shuttering or realigning 775 smaller facilities, to save nearly $49 billion over the next...
That Kerkorian doesn't even drive a GM car suggests he may not be in love with the goods. Loaded down with excess factory capacity, waning SUV sales and crushing health-care liabilities, the company is no quick turnaround play. So you have to wonder, What is he thinking? Kerkorian isn't talking--he has been virtually silent with the press since 1971. But there was no shortage of speculation on Wall Street and in Detroit. The scuttlebutt: that Kerkorian will try to force GM to spin off its lucrative financing unit, GMAC; that he will try to line...
...today, members of the Darfur Action Group will meet with Harvard College administrators. On the agenda is a proposal that, if implemented, would give Harvard undergraduates the opportunity to donate their excess Board Plus and Crimson Cash balances to the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), a group that provides logistical support to the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan. Government-supported militants have killed tens of thousands in the region, in what many have called a genocide...
...free/ I got a feelin' and then it got to me" floats by, you might wonder a bit about his depth, but in Daniel's dry croak, generalities and absurdities seem to take on meaning. He sounds a bit like Paul Westerberg, but Daniel's irony stems from an excess of feeling, not an absence of it (think of the difference between Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), and his cadence makes words feel hard earned and universal. Being beaten down by love is an old act, of course, but then so is rock 'n' roll. Gimme Fiction has an amazing...