Word: moratorium
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What has made the case against capital punishment so difficult to argue, however, is the policy’s utter insignificance in practical terms. As of last Tuesday’s Texas execution of Juan Chavez, only 847 convicted murderers have been put to death since the 10-year moratorium on executions was broken 26 years ago. Death is used only sparingly as a form of punishment and has a minimal effect on prison populations and state treasuries. Indifference is indeed the first natural reaction to the death of less than 1000 of the country’s most vile...
...University lifted its SARS-related moratorium on travel to Singapore yesterday following the advice of the Center for Disease Control, according to the University’s website. The decision comes almost a week after the University called off its travel ban to Toronto, Canada, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization. The University originally banned travel to these areas last month as cases of SARS spread around the world. The moratorium on travel to China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan remains in place...
...what the presidents’ views are concerning it...I think that they realized that what they did was flawed,” Kauble said. “I would advocate that the moratorium be completely lifted...
...pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough for Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a Canada-based social-advocacy organization that wants a global moratorium on nanotech research until health, safety and environmental tests are carried out. It was ETC Group's research into the dangers of nanotech that stirred Prince Charles to intervene. "If there have been industry studies indicating that these materials are safe, then we'd like to see them," she says...
...ethical - simply because of unease about where it might lead? Should we go slow in some areas, or leave some doors of possibility permanently closed? Should we restrict science's traditional freedom of inquiry and international openness? In 1975, prominent molecular biologists did just that by proposing a moratorium on what were then novel types of gene splicing experiments. This moratorium soon came to seem unduly cautious, but that doesn't mean that it was unwise at the time, since the risk was then genuinely uncertain. But it would be far harder to achieve anything similar today. The research community...