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This week, British members of Parliment and members of the Lords will gather for a second reading of a bill to allow genetically-modified (GM) embryos to be created for research purposes. This bill comes in the wake of the first successful creation of a GM human embryo at Cornell University, which took advantage of a lack of regulation on human cloning in New York State. More than a decade after the media spectacle surrounding Dolly the sheep, cloning seems to have fallen under the radar, while the legal environment surrounding it remains nebulous...
...will Probably run for Parliment again," says Conway. "But even after being in the political process, my main concern is to come up with new solutions to handle the problem...
...questions--however impressive the book's photograph of Robert Earl Hughes. "Heaviest Human of All Time"--are so readily referred to simple ocular evidence. Both McWhirters were unsuccessful Conservative candidates for Parliment in 1964, and Norris is particularly opposed to confiscatory income taxes ("Did I say confiscatory? 106 per cent! That's beyond confiscation!") Did the brothers' social and political background help inform their eloquent list of the perquisites available to U.S. Senators, the highest paid legislators in the world? And in other cases, such influences may have been praiseworthy effects. If a pub debate about "Greatest Mass Killings" turned...
Funkadelic Parliment was kind of poohpoohed in these columns on Tuesday, but on further listening the error of our ways becomes obvious. The group is a big and brassy soul band that handles instrumentals better than any other R&B combo around. If you like Kool and the Gang-type music (how could you not), you'll love Funkadelic Parliament. They're playing through Saturday at Paul's Mall in Boston...
...government by military force to avoid an election with Karefa-Smart. This placed Karefa-Smart in a delicate position. "When this brother pulled this fast one on us, I found I could not stay under those conditions," he says. "So I left the country. I remained a member of Parliment, but took a post at Columbia University because it would be safer...