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Well, that was then. Today these very same advocates are campaigning hard to permit research cloning--that is, the creation of human embryos for the purpose of taking them apart for their stem cells. They justify this reversal of position by invoking the suffering of millions. And they heap scorn on opponents for letting old promises and arbitrary moral barriers stand in the way of human betterment...
...night at the Spee doing interpretive dances, carefully scribed the names of every person in the room over and over and over. A makeshift assembly line emerged on the balcony while people compulsively ripped tiny scraps of paper into equal sizes, each annotated with a single name. A great heap of white bits was illuminated by the light of the candle while Harvard’s resident Daedalus rabble rolled up their starched white shirtsleeves and argued vehemently about the nuances of the game. The coolness of the crowd disintegrated rapidly as the paper piles of names became confused...
...Nazis - is not entirely improbable. Nor is the possibility that they might detonate the thing in the U.S. (in Baltimore, at a Super Bowl game), hoping that we'll blame the Russians and get World War III up and running, dreaming, too, that the post-war world (or slag heap) they inherit will be safe for fascism...
...first glance, the slag-heap of trite and true elements already seems in place: the divorced parents, the unloving stepmother, the little rebellions, first love, academic woes and trouble with a capital...
...cremated Pol Pot's body shortly after he expired. But, to establish conclusively that the corpse was in fact the man responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians, Thai army officers took hair, finger nail and other samples from the body before it was cast onto a burning heap of tires and old furniture. "Those who poisoned Pol Pot were close to him," Surayud said. "They thought he was useless and would cause trouble." Still hiding in the jungle nearly 20 years after being forced from power, it wasn't likely the deposed despot would ever give...