Word: notionalism
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...human embryos. It was a hard line, especially in view of his more flexible stance on abortion--he favors allowing victims of rape and incest to have the procedure. His campaign promise on stem cells was a huge relief to hard-liners who accept no compromise on the notion that life begins at conception. For them, destroying an embryo--even to get stem cells that could potentially save lives--is murder. But the moral firmness of his campaign line makes wiggling now politically unseemly. It's particularly hard for him to consider changing his mind when, in his first week...
...that kadabba walked upright at all is hugely significant. Paleontologists have suspected for nearly 200 years that bipedalism was probably the key evolutionary transition that split the human line off from the apes, and fossil discoveries as far back as Java Man in the 1890s supported that notion. The astonishingly complete skeleton of Lucy, with its clearly apelike skull but upright posture, cemented the idea a quarter-century...
Unnecessary? Had we not all agreed that it is unethical, a violation of the elementary notion that we don't make of the human embryo a thing--to be made, unmade and used as a mere instrument for others? Dr. Michael Soules of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine was even more appalling. He saw nothing wrong with the procedure, except the "timing." Meaning, I suppose, that it would have been better if this news had remained hidden until President Bush had decided whether to fund stem-cell research, believing, falsely, that only discarded embryos were being used...
...Mediobanca is something we have never seen before in Italy," says Marco Bolgiani of Eptafund in Milan. But the onetime friends have had a few subterranean run-ins over the years. For example, the bank supported Olivetti's successful 1999 bid for Telecom Italia, which Fiat opposed. Still, the notion of a vendetta shouldn't be overplayed: shares in a company called HdP, whose investments include the newspaper Corriere della Serra and the designer Valentino, shot up briefly this month on hopes that Fiat might lead a raid there as well. Fiat had declined to renew a syndicate pact with...
...Matt Rees: After this week, the cease-fire (which had been pretty much nothing more than a notion) is really off the agenda. We?re basically back to where things were before Colin Powell came a few weeks ago, where both sides are suggesting that they should proceed according to the Mitchell Report, but have different interpretations of how that process begins, and no one is terribly close to resolving that...