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...people, shall not perish from the earth.” There is no better definition of democracy. But as our government tries to spread this creed across the world, it keeps encountering the same stumbling block. In Iraq, it seems, “the people” do not exist. There are only competing groups who lack faith in each other and, more crucially, in their central authority. What good are elections or constitutions without this foundation of trust, the decision to be one people? That is what nation building really means, I thought while walking the once-bloodshed Gettysburg...
...threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from north of the river could hit the city of Kiryat Shmona and other Israeli population centers; Once in, the Israelis may find it difficult to easily extract themselves - the international force that would ostensibly take over does not yet exist, and there are doubts over whether it would materialize at all as long as there was a shooting war between Israel and Hizballah...
...useful in preventing employers from hiring unauthorized workers much in the way that IRS audits dissuade businesses from cheating on their taxes. But the immigration service would need more funds and there would have to be real commitment on the part of the Administration, something Keeley says does not exist. "It's not even a policy of triage, the absence of resources are dire," he says...
...they are useful More than 400,000 embryos created during in vitro fertilization lie frozen in clinic tanks in the U.S. Many of them will be discarded, so the embryonic stem cells that exist inside them could be salvaged...
ADULT STEM CELLS Why they are useful They exist in many major tissues, including the blood, skin and brain. They can be coaxed to produce more cells of a specific lineage and do not have to be extracted from embryos Drawbacks They can generate only a limited number of cell types, and they are difficult to grow in culture...