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Members of Congress said they felt "humbled" last week as they rose to debate the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, and 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...
...falling energy prices are the best kind to have. Much as the prospect of rising pump prices earlier in the summer had economists worried about a "virtual tax," psychologically and otherwise, on producers and consumers alike, the reality of precipitously falling energy prices means that consumers will feel richer and manufacturers, well, at least cheaper fuel doesn?t make that woebegone sector?s predicament any worse...
...estimated $250 million of federal funds to continue their research, but only using the existing lines of stem cells (the precise quantity of which seems to be a matter of confusion; some put the number at 12, others, including the President, put it at 60). The President, citing the "prospect of saving and improving life at all its stages" encouraged scientists to consider using stem cells culled from adults, animals and placentas...
...Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager ArsÈne Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995 to '96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. A decade ago, the prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories, such as Yasuhiko Okudera, who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977 to '86, and Kazuyoshi Miura, who appeared for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa in the 1990s...
...longer be able to simply round up Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants without provoking a backlash that could ultimately destroy his own base. Thus Arafat's dilemma: Unless he can revive the peace process he becomes irrelevant, and yet reviving the peace process is becoming a progressively more distant prospect. The aging Palestinian leader has become a prisoner of his own intifada, even as it moves inexorably to eclipse his leadership...