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...with mobility, behavior, a purpose, a face. Those fanciful and frightful things are surely many years away and may prove too challenging and disturbing for society to allow. What Venter appears to have done, however, is crack the manufacturing code. Once you've done that, there may be little limit on what you can eventually build...
...commonly eaten fish, if there is any level of mercury where, for an adult [excluding women who are or may become pregnant], the potential risk will be greater than the potential benefit of omega-3s, I haven't seen any study that shows that.... If there is a theoretical limit at which potential harm from mercury might exceed omega-3s, it's probably far higher than what we're seeing now. The idea that you're going to eat a fish meal as an adult and that it's going to give you net cardiovascular harm is just not supported...
...inconsistencies. During that January 8 press conference, for example, Sarkozy said 2008 would feature the death of France's 35-hour workweek. Less than 24 protest-punctuated hours later, he promptly did a volte-face and declared, "it's not the government's intention to abolish the legal working limit." At the same time, Sarkozy defended his controversial decision to use the corporate jet loaned to him by billionaire friend Vincent Bolloré during his Christmas vacation to Egypt with Bruni. Waving off what detractors called a conflict of interest of accepting free travel from a business mogul, Sarkozy cited...
McCain is also a major advocate of campaign-finance reform, having crossed party lines to join Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to limit soft money and curb the corruption associated with funding a campaign. He has also publicly condemned pork barrel spending in Congress, which he believes interferes with national interests...
That changed on Jan. 16, when the Chief Pleas passed a law mandating universal suffrage and ending the practice of reserving seats for the landed gentry. It also agreed to limit the role of the island's master, known in Sark's French-English patois as the Seigneur, and to make its constitution a democracy...