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...reach consensus on a federal policy in this area," Frist declared Thursday. "Nonetheless, because both embryonic and adult stem cell research may contribute to significant medical and health advancement, research on both should be federally funded within a carefully regulated, fully transparent framework that ensures respect for the moral significance of the human embryo...
...other words, yup, here comes a new John Irving novel. The Fourth Hand (Random House; 316 pages; $26.95), though somewhat shorter than most of its nine predecessors, offers the same mix of the macabre and the moral that Irving's army of admirers has come to expect. For the loss of his hand isn't Wallingford's principal problem. His extraordinary good looks have rendered him vain and shallow. As one of his countless lovers tells him, "It's been flattering, for a while, to be with a man who can so thoroughly lose himself in a woman...
...These days Erdogan chooses his words carefully. He no longer talks of minarets and bayonets but of "making moral values a pillar of modern administration."; The Islamic rhetoric of seven years ago is gone. He presents demands, like permission for women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities, not as threats to the secular state but as basic rights. Even so, a Turkish establishment that includes the army still suspects his moderation is just fa?ade. Other critics say he's too provincial to reform Turkey and lead it into the E.U. His reply, still to be tested, is that...
...both, simultaneously. The jury is still out. And may always be out. This ambivalence is simply the dualism of the world, the secret of its magnetic fields, its gigantic plus and stupendous minus. We split the atom, and what was the moral meaning of Hiroshima? The lives saved? Or the lives incinerated...
...their misery). What a slope was there. Stangl ended up as the kommandant of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp, presiding over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and others. Gitta Sereny wrote a book about Stangl called "Into that Darkness," one of the most important moral lessons of the twentieth century...