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...case was more an ethical than a scientific landmark. There was the familiar slippery-slope question that arises with all genetic tinkering: Today we screen for deadly genes, tomorrow for baldness and tone deafness? But last week's case had a whole other layer of tragedy and quandary. Is it fair for a woman to give birth who will probably "not be able to care for or even recognize her child in a few years?" asked an editorial in J.A.M.A. In the arguments over life and choice, the right to have a baby is implicitly absolute. Saul Bellow's virility...
...meet at an agreed-on battlefield, fight to a decisive conclusion and not yield that field until one side was broken. The idea took root that war's central purpose was to "find and engage [the enemy] in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author...
...Vice President arrived at Oklahoma City's Petroleum Club for a $1,000-a-person fund raiser for House GOP conference chairman J.C. Watts. Cheney also attended a fund raiser for Senate GOP leader Trent Lott's leadership fund. That reception at the Willard Hotel, an ornate Washington landmark, was packed with lobbyists. Cheney spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise said the fund raisers had been prescheduled, and were not the only events Cheney attended during that time...
...Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a landmark copyright protection case presented by Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor Jonathan Zittrain...
...axis of evil” speech will surely go down as a landmark event in the history of American diplomacy. He has inaugurated a new climate of honesty and reinvigorated the potential of our foreign policy...