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...that was an entirely appropriate response to their assignment. The goal was simple: stop anyone from trying to clone a human, a prospect that strikes just about everyone as medically dangerous and morally repugnant. The problem was how to do it in a way that did not also outlaw all kinds of other promising research that relies on some of the same techniques. The stakes could not be much higher--Will we or will we not allow the custom-creation of children?--and the outcome was never much in doubt. But as a preview of battles to come, the debate...
Both bills before the House promised to outlaw "reproductive cloning," i.e., cloning to create a baby. But lawmakers had to decide what price they would pay to make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose and punish violators with 10 years in jail and a $1 million fine. The alternative amendment, introduced by Republican Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious...
...ASSASSINATED. PHOOLAN DEVI, 38, outlaw-turned-politician whose life was depicted in the 1994 film Bandit Queen; in New Delhi. The lower-caste Devi was sold into marriage at age 11, fled, and joined a gang of robbers. To avenge her rape by a group of upper-caste men, she allegedly led the massacre of 22 men and was jailed for 11 years. A hero to India's dispossessed, she was twice elected to parliament. BANNED. JAMES ARCHER, 27, for life from trading in London's financial district for his 1998 manipulation of the Swedish stock exchange while working...
...today feel betrayed by the criminal-justice system. Does that mean Operation Pipeline was a total failure? No one worth hearing argues that race should be the only factor in police decision-making, but should race never be part of a criminal profile? The legislation pending in Congress would outlaw any use of race in traffic or pedestrian stops, even if race is only one of many factors cops have adduced in a profile. Of course, cops would still be able to stop an African American if they thought he was a specific black suspect, but otherwise race would...
Zhang Jun could be called China's Jesse James. He killed his first man in a public bathroom in 1994, and in the six years until his capture last September he grew into a legendary outlaw. He forced girlfriends to prove their loyalty by murdering innocent folk. His clutch of ruffians shot their way into banks and jewelry stores across central China, killing 28 people before the police finally nabbed him. For James, the end came when a turncoat gang member in 1882 shot him in the back. A state executioner dispatched Zhang in a similar fashion...