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...experts from the International Society of Stem Cell Researchers (ISSCR), who have spent the last six months trying to come up with a set of guidelines to regulate what's currently the wild west field of human embryonic stem cell research. They were in part motivated by the misconduct of South Korean stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, who admitted earlier this year to paying women to donate eggs for study, a practice that many scientists believe is unethical because it could lead to coercion...
...compel them to open their books. Quarterly reporting in the corporate world was still a novelty and always voluntary. He wanted the government to see into companies' workings so it could judge which combinations were tolerable and which were illegal restraints of trade. "We draw the line against misconduct," he said. "Not against wealth...
...group of service members that comes to symbolize the enterprise's larger costs. To some U.S. officers, the impact of the daily stream of accusations about the actions of the men of Kilo Company is conjuring comparisons with the blow from the country's most searing example of battlefield misconduct, the My Lai massacre of 1968, in which U.S. soldiers slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese. "I worry the combination of Abu Ghraib and Haditha will be the My Lai of this generation," says a senior officer who served in Iraq. "Not because Haditha compares to My Lai, but the perception...
...fateful morning in Haditha have shed light on why a small group of Marines apparently abandoned all semblance of self-restraint in a deadly burst of vengeance. But other questions are likely to remain--about who bears ultimate responsibility for the killings, about other possible incidents of military misconduct in Iraq and about whether the U.S. can do anything to stop Haditha from happening again...
...slightly surprising last week to watch al-Maliki appear to bite the hand that made him. In an unexpectedly angry response last week to questions about the Haditha slayings, al-Maliki accused U.S. forces of misconduct even beyond the actions of the Marines last...