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...argues that the resistance has only a limited time in which to act--until the U.S. confers sovereignty on a new Iraqi government, a turnover planned for June. "We are racing against time," he says. Once democracy is in place, "we will have no pretexts," he argues. "If, God forbid, the [new Iraqi] government is successful and takes control of the country, we will just have to pack up and go somewhere else again." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris and Helen Gibson/London
...rejecting a watered-down bill that would have banned reproductive cloning only, conservatives have ensured that the U.S is, bizarrely, one of few developed countries that doesn't forbid human cloning. Responsible scientists wouldn't try it, but an unethical researcher could read the Science paper and attempt to use the technique to bring a clone to term. "I'm afraid that some nitwit is going to try," says Larry Goldstein, a cellular and molecular biologist at the University of California at San Diego. But given the high rate of spontaneous abortions and genetic defects seen in other species...
...opportunity and access for all become realities? When do we see a law saying that society must open up to the same people it is ordering to integrate?" Those are hotly contested questions as the ban heads for final (and certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid Muslim head scarves, Jewish yarmulkes, "excessively oversized" Christian crucifixes and perhaps Sikh turbans was initially approved this month, Education Minister Luc Ferry promised it would stop "classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities." Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
When George W. Bush was running for President four years ago, stories raising questions about his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard never got much traction. In the Republican primaries, John McCain forbid his staff to exploit the fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while...
...thought this reputation belonged to members of final clubs, social clubs and even residents of notorious party rooms like the Quincy Balcony suite or Currier Ten-Man. Unlike exclusive social clubs and individual residents, the Prefect Program and Crimson Key Society do have strict rules about parties and explicitly forbid partying with the freshmen they serve...