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...contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
...unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to the building. I watched a tank effortlessly flatten a heavy truck that had been pulled across the road to block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After the attack, we journalists spread out across the city, fearing a KGB round up (staff at our Intourist hotel had warned...
...north-western bit of Somalia, a nation state that ceased to function as such a decade ago. But while the south has been torn apart by incessant violence ever since and is only now attempting to move beyond government by the ubiquitous warlords, Somaliland has forged a more peaceful path. It has created its own government, and issued currency and passports. Not that a Somaliland passport will get you anywhere - although a declaration of independence from Somalia was supported by 90 percent of voters in a recent referendum, no other country recognizes the move. The Somalilanders maintain they were always...
...unless you can later show him a viable career alternative you may have a devil of a time wresting it away from him. After all, besides the passionate embrace of a political cause and the testosterone thrill of meting out violence, insurgency often also represents a viable career path to those otherwise mired in grinding poverty...
...Where the Bush administration had been leaving it up to the two sides to find their own way back to the Tenet cease-fire, pressure on Washington to take a more forceful role may begin to grow as the daily escalation of violence makes each side's path back to the cease-fire all the more treacherous. Since the outbreak of the current intifada, both sides have couched the terms of their confrontations in terms of existing political agreements and cease-fires, even as those appeared to have diminishing relevance to the daily clashes. The idea that Arafat would round...