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...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...
...makers of a bumper crop of new red-wine pills are banking on. The latest entry in the burgeoning wine-supplement market is Longevinex, which boasts that its pills are the only ones that both come in airtight capsules and--mon Dieu!--are made of real red-wine extract from France. Packed into each Longevinex capsule is an active ingredient roughly equivalent to between 5 and 15 glasses of red wine or unfermented grape juice. The key compound is an antioxidant called resveratrol, which has been shown to play a role in longevity--at least for one-cell organisms. Perhaps...