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...pollster Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, the cdu has a narrow lead with 41% of the vote, down slightly from the last election in 1996, while the sdp has soared from 25.1% to a projected 36%. What's clear is that only a coalition of parties will have enough votes to govern. The cdu currently rules in union with the Free Democrats, while the sdp partners with the Greens. But Schröder's followers in Baden-Württemberg have hinted they will try to form a coalition with both the Free Democrats and the Greens...
English is notoriously illogical. For example, if "tongue" is pronounced tung, why isn't "argue" pronounced arg? And if "enough" is enuff, why isn't "bough" pronounced buff? The arbitrary rules that govern English bedevil nonnative students of the language as much as they torment would-be spelling-bee champs. But such frustrations pale before those endured by dyslexics, who live with a learning disability that can make reading and writing all but impossible...
...Matt Rees: Certainly. One detail that will have a profound impact on the domestic political situation occurred even before the government was sworn in. Sharon pushed through a law to stop the practice of direct elections for prime minister. In the last two elections, Israelis had been able to vote separately for the party to represent them in parliament and for the candidate they wanted for prime minister. That had created tremendous political instability by fracturing the political landscape, because people could choose the party closest to their hearts rather than being forced to choose between the major parties...
...Still, as a society, we may have to ask ourselves whether allowing market forces and the profit motive to govern the distribution of medicines and health services is a rational choice. Indeed, we have to ask whether we're comfortable allowing millions of people to die simply because they are unable to afford medicines we are capable of producing in plentiful supply. And let's be very clear about this - it's not the drug companies that are at fault here. They're behaving as corporations behave. If they behaved like nonprofit organizations then they wouldn't be corporations...
...infertile couples avoid the complications of choosing which of them to clone and instead look elsewhere for their DNA, what sorts of values govern that choice? Do they pick an uncle because he's musical, a willing neighbor because she's brilliant? Through that door lies the whole unsettling debate about designer babies, fueled already by the commercial sperm banks that promise genius DNA to prospective parents. Sperm banks give you a shot at passing along certain traits; cloning all but assures...