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Scadden’s suggestion that the U.S. should catch up is most troubling because stem cell research using cloned embryos, as in South Korea, relies on a process similar to human cloning. Defending cloning-based stem cell research and attempting to distinguish it from complete cloning, researchers explain that the cloned embryo is never implanted in a womb. But this is merely a procedural, technical distinction. The difference morally between cloning an embryo to be used for research and cloning it to create life is much less clear: In both cases, the researchers are cloning a person and playing...
When a country goes to war, the public rallies around the leader, in part because it is just too scary not to. You sleep better at night if you trust the guy keeping watch. That helps explain why George W. Bush was called unbeatable last May even after leading America through a war over which the country anguished. As the anniversary of the Iraq invasion nears, a majority of the American people still trust his leadership, and nearly 70% think the country is safer than it was before Sept. 11. And so John Kerry, as he emerges as the Democrats...
...some reason, none of the lawyers who are defending the big greedheads have chosen to make this argument. Instead, they offer inconsistent theories to explain the obvious. Lawyers for the Rigas family, which performed the remarkable feat of bankrupting a cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...
...before I get yelled at by the “academics first” in the crowd, let me explain why this is not only feasible but necessary for the betterment of the Harvard community...
...attention to history is only half the picture, and relying on the past to explain one’s candidacy is the equivalent of waiting for Bush to politically implode on his own. It could work, but it’s not a very inspiring or promising tactic...