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...something of an irony then that such an imperfect organism as Venter has devoted much of his career to understanding the engineering of other organisms. He was the leader of one of two teams that in 2000 sequenced the human genome-the entire 25,000-gene cookbook that makes us people in the first place and not chimps or birds or banana trees - and he has conducted the same work with many other organisms. But Venter, 61, may have just done something that is at once more thrilling and promising and unsettling than all that. According to a just-released...
...More than likely, all three factors played a role in Bhutto's death - imperfect protection (if not criminal negligence), a risky campaigning style, and an extremist group waiting for the perfect opportunity to create havoc in a country already teetering on the edge of collapse. But as campaigning goes forward for parliamentary elections now slated for February 18, many similar opportunities for further destabilization will present themselves. A new report released by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a terrorism watchdog group, shows that casualties from terrorist attacks have increased fivefold in the past two years. According to the report...
...imperfect NFL season overshadowed by Michael Vick's jailing, the murders of two players and a host of other off-field issues, the prospect of the Pats as champs seems oddly appropriate. After all, it's also a safe bet that these Pats will be forever tarnished by the Spygate affair, in which the team was caught trying to steal an opponent's signs, using a sideline camera. On the surface, more controversy would seem like the last thing the league needs. But it turns out the Patriots are the ideal villains. The drama inherent in their chase...
...case, I told the radio interviewer, it was crucial to the Person of the Year decision that he had revived Russia, returning it once again to its integral role in international politics and the global economy. But Putin had accomplished this by suppressing the freedoms, however frail and imperfect, that Russians enjoyed in the 1980s and '90s. The majority of the Russian people supported Putin in his policy of swapping freedoms and democracy for stability and order - or, in the eyes of critics like myself, for the illusion of stability and order. Ordinary Russians believe Putin's impact...
...society to what amounts to murder by the state. We hope that the Supreme Court rules against lethal injection, finally recognizing its true nature. Beyond the method of lethal injection, we believe that the death penalty is categorically wrong, both morally and legally. Our system of justice is inevitably imperfect, and even one tragic mistake costing an innocent life is too much. The connection between the death penalty and racially charged cases is well documented, and the system needs to be reevaluated to eliminate biases. In an age where all of Western Europe, Canada, and many other countries have abolished...