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...suspected of planning a deadly raid on a Thai army base on Jan. 4. The attack sparked an upsurge of violence in the area that has left at least 50 people dead, most of whom were local officials or police. Somchai claimed that police tortured the five suspects to extract confessions, an allegation the authorities deny. He also led a campaign to gather 50,000 signatures to petition the government to abolish martial law in the south...
...valid to note that having war medals is no guarantee of achieving a successful presidency, but Krauthammer missed one relevant point: the use and misuse of power and privilege to extract special treatment. That is how Bush managed to escape serving in Vietnam. The debate is not about the relevance of war experience or military medals; it is about character and moral values. Krauthammer did a good job of defending Bush's background, but that was not good enough. That Bush is flawed as a human being is clear from his use of his father's position to get special...
...that overall philosophy—working to advance the team, regardless of the personal toll—has allowed him to extract disproportionate measures of success, given the talent given...
...revelation, first reported yesterday in The Boston Globe, comes two weeks after a South Korean laboratory became the first to extract a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, disappointing Harvard researchers who had been pursuing the achievement...
Last Thursday, South Korean scientists Dr. Woo Suk Huang and Dr. Shin Young Moon became the first to extract a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, clearing the first hurdle towards therapeutic cloning—a method aimed at treating diseases rather than making babies...