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...Qaeda is a rigid hierarchy. Lower down, the organization becomes murkier. Cells of terrorists belonging to groups like Islamic Jihad or Hamas train in bin Laden's camps, then carry out operations. Commando cells are the fighters and suicide bombers. Other cells provide logistic and planning support. Most are highly compartmentalized, with no idea what others...
From recent Supreme Court rulings on school prayer to a presidential campaign where God is the third running mate, the division between church and state is becoming increasingly murkier...
...contrast, when scientists from Craig Venter's Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project announce that they're finished sequencing the genome--which they are scheduled to do this week--the milestone will be a lot murkier. That's because they're not really finished. What the scientists at Celera have done is sequence about 97% of the genome, and the remaining 150 million or so letters won't be deciphered anytime soon. The HGP is even further behind; unlike Celera, it hasn't put its strings of letters into proper order yet. This loose end should be cleared...
...second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperament. In the years since, America has elected brilliant men and charming ones, wonks, rogues, rascals, a general, an actor, a nuclear engineer, in a rolling judgment about knowledge and wisdom, instinct and style. At times it seems that the murkier the issues, the sharper the matter of character becomes...
...reconsider some of its laissez-faire policies. The company recently established an ethics committee, to which buyers and other Wal-Mart employees can refer any knotty issue. As Wal-Mart continues to grow internationally, the committee will no doubt get busier. Certainly the medical-ethics front will get murkier. "We are only at the tip of the iceberg," says Soderquist. "There will be lots of issues that will come up: suicide pills, genetic engineering. Can they prescribe pills that alter the genes...