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Ware said he believed upper-class students may have been spared the moratorium on cigarettes and halogen lamps so far because of "custom and tradition," which have always allowed older students to have them...
...overwhelming majority are not the Timothy McVeighs or Ted Bundys or John Wayne Gacys." Simply put, the most powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on executions because "the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency...
...clone people. While the possibility of cloning opens up a new and exciting line of scientific study, it also seems to violate ancient taboos. To help sort out the issues--and to get the jump on a conservative Congress--President Clinton took two swift steps: he called for a moratorium on the use of federal funds for human-cloning research, and he asked his National Bioethics Advisory Commission to let him know within 90 days whether the new technology should be even more tightly controlled...
...research question proved so divisive, however, that the commission ultimately decided to duck it. The final 107-page report, "Cloning Human Beings," urged the President to keep in place the current moratorium on federally funded human- embryo research while requesting (but not requiring) that the private sector honor...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With a perfunctory nod to the wonders of scientific exploration, President Clinton stuck to his guns, announcing that he would continue the moratorium on federal funding for research into human cloning, while pushing for a legislative ban. That's the advice of his National Biothics Advisory Commission, which keeping the federal ban in place while discouraging (but not making illegal) private research on human embryos. OK, but few scientists are seriously pushing for cloning humans. The hard part? Determining just how far the research on human embryos should go. After all, a lot of folks passionately believe that...