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Research would proceed but only in the handful of labs willing to fund it on their own. These labs are subject to minimal oversight. They rarely consult with one another, research doesn't get peer-reviewed, and studies may be unknowingly (and unnecessarily) duplicated. Many of the nation's top scientists who would otherwise lead the research effort would remain on the sidelines. And commercial pressures could make private labs focus more on research that might turn a profit than on studies that advance general knowledge. Says James Thomson, the stem-cell pioneer: "Industry and other countries will go forward...
...David (Beno) Benveniste, 30, is the swagmeister. His Streetwise Concepts & Culture gives away thousands of T shirts, stickers, posters and CD samplers to "street teams" of young volunteers (speaking of free) who spread the buzz to other kids in skate parks, high schools and concert parking lots. It's peer-to-peer marketing done with minimal investing and maximum effect. "Everybody wants free stuff," he says with a laugh. "And if a16-year-old has a backpack full of cool gear to hand out, he feels like a king...
...much for the romance of air travel. "We had no legroom, everyone was grum-py and the air stewardess was unfriendly," says Patrick Schepers, 13, of Peer, Belgium, after a recent long-haul flight. "It's the cocktail of ingredients," says David Dison, 46, a South African lawyer and frequent traveler. "The cabin pressure, the lack of legroom, the lack of air." But airlines' attempts to share blame with passengers may hold some water. Ishii says she knows she should have walked around, but stayed in her seat so as not to disturb her husband and his neighbor. And some...
...Supreme Court was clearly more troubled by the privacy issues than Huguenin. The majority opinion explicitly used the heat-detector case to draw what Justice Antonin Scalia called a firm, bright line blocking the use of this and future imaging technologies to peer into the home or any other place where an individual might have a reasonable expectation of privacy...
...court also left the police a couple of outs. The first is to get a search warrant. If the cops have good reason to peer inside a house, they can always go to a judge and get permission--just as they do today with a wiretap. The second is to wait for the technology to become ubiquitous. If everybody owns a through-the-wall imager, the court suggested last week, then nobody can reasonably expect any privacy anywhere, even at home...