Word: intentionalism
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...strict pro-lifers the issue is straightforward: an embryo at any stage of development is a human life, worthy of protection, and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo to harvest its cells is immoral, no matter how worthy the intent. It involves using people as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization that we accept at our peril. "We have just enough time to ensure that we remain the masters of our technology," warned Henry Hyde, "not its products...
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy was three when R.F.K. was assassinated. Born the ninth of 11 children, he grew up in the sad, chaotic shrine that was Hickory Hill. Ethel, Robert's widow, was intent on keeping his memory alive through her children. "The R.F.K.s had a very different [experience]," William Kennedy Smith says of his cousins. "There is an enormous focus there on that legacy that perhaps other branches of the family don't quite have to deal with as much...
...Lightning: Days of Thongs"...Not bad. A little cheesy. Might work. But it's not $12 million worth, or even $10 million. Ken Starr got there first - already wrote the book that had all the sexy material. The rest is just history - just homework. Maybe that was Starr's intent all along - to queer your post-presidential book deal by pre-emptively spilling the most salacious stuff (the blue dress and the cigar and all that) under the plain brown wrapper of an official special counsel's report...
...hard to be hostile to creatures so charmingly intent, so assiduous, and so eagerly scrambling up the food chain. I guess they would not be cute if they carried bubonic plague. But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom and Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice are smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as they had gotten 800s on their SATs. These guys are good...
...Gilberto Aponte, Michael Spears, and Seanna Donlon were arrested at 820 Mass. Ave. for Class A drug possession with intent to distribute...