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...next generation of pediatricians who have to design your baby. It's in the field of genetics and genetic engineering where faith and morality questions will play out. Is it immoral now to abort a Down syndrome baby? In the future, should you use technology to create a perfect baby, finding the right genes? And then you'll be responsible for what you have created in a way that you never were before. No more "will...
...stock sinking, Pet Quarters couldn't raise the funds it needed to keep operating, and shut down. CEO Steve Dempsey and an executive who had invested with him wound up filing for personal bankruptcy. "There was nothing wrong with our business," says Dempsey. "We fell prey to the perfect crime." Weiner counters that "most of these companies" that blame short sellers when their stock falls are financially "barely skating...
...Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, sites about the Tiananmen Square protests, and some others about Taiwanese independence. Also blocked, however, are sources of general international news—the BBC web site, for example, can only be intermittently reached from within Chinese borders.Of course, firewalls aren’t perfect, but the Chinese government has mechanisms in place for catching would-be circumventors as well: they log even traffic they don’t block, and have been installing surveillance cameras at internet cafes to track down those who are trying to access objectionable content. What happens to those...
...well.”Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor of Psychiatry Harrison Pope, the senior author of the McLean study, said he and Halpern were initially interested in exploring the psychological effects of a hallucinogen on individuals who used no other drugs. “The Navajo seemed a perfect test group,” Pope says, because church members “explicitly abstain from other drugs.”While the outcome of the McLean study certainly means comfort for the 300,000 legal users of peyote in the United States, the results apply only to this particular...
...bodies. For the show’s finale, the Dins laughed at themselves by performing the “Copa Cabana,” during which the tallest member, dressed in drag, complete with a blonde wig, mamboed about the stage with the lead singer. But, somehow, it was perfect. It was a bizarre finish to an all-over-the-place evening, but it made for a memorable and exciting balance...