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People who object on moral grounds to research using human embryonic stem cells might be surprised to learn that scientists too are struggling with ethical dilemmas. In the past when a controversial new technology came along--recombinant DNA, for example--the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would set the scientific and ethical standards for research. But with embryonic stem cells (ESCs), the NIH has been hamstrung by President Bush's 2001 order allowing it to fund only research using the limited and imperfect cell lines already in existence--not exactly cutting-edge science. Relegated to a minor role...
...biggest heists of Italian art in years. Around the world last year, more than 12,000 pieces of collectible art, jewelry and antiques were reported missing or stolen to the London-based Art Loss Register, whose database of stolen works is the largest in the world. When the stolen object is a rare masterpiece - such as Edvard Munch's The Scream, which was lifted from The Munch Museum in Oslo last year and is still missing, though three men have been arrested in connection with the crime - the theft grabs headlines. But hauls of large numbers of works are less...
About two years ago, I had such a moment. The object of my affection seemed worlds away. True, we lived in the same city, but attended different schools, divided by background and religion and life experience. Still, in one momentous e-mail, I attempted to bridge those gaps, inviting my dream girl for an inter-cultural experience; a Shabbat dinner at Harvard Hillel...
Kremlinologists who have made their careers by finding evidence for Russian exceptionalism will, undoubtedly, poke holes in Shleifer’s data and analysis in years to come. But the real problem with Shleifer’s book is not that experts will find reasons to object to his often penetrating analysis, which should be treated for what it is—an extremely valuable addition to the literature on the Russian transition...
...articulated well the up-or-down vote principle in the late 1990s when President Clinton’s nominees faced Republican obstruction, but with the tables turned seem to have forgotten it. One of the chief obstructionists, Patrick Leahy D-VT, said in 1998: “I would object and fight against any filibuster on a judge, whether it is somebody I opposed or supported.” Tom Harkin put it even more bluntly: “[The filibuster process] is used…as blackmail for one Senator to get his or her way on something that...