Word: reasonings
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What if the lost child was very young? The shorter the life, the fewer the expectations parents might place on the substitute, right? If a baby dies within a few days of birth and there is no reason to think that death was caused by an inherited defect, would it then be acceptable to make a copy? Is it practical to frame legislation that would prevent copying of adults or older children, but allow copying of infants? At what age would a child be too old to be copied in the event of death...
While it's true that just about every cell in the body has the instructions to make a complete human, most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good reason: the last thing you want is for your brain cells to start churning out stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The only time cells truly have the potential to turn into any and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when so-called stem cells haven't begun to specialize...
...attack and Western observers scrambled to mediate Monday, guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) said they would release the soldiers only as part of a prisoner exchange. ?An exchange would legitimize the KLA as a political fighting force,? says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. ?For the same reason, the Serbs can?t make a deal with those they dismiss as terrorists...
...Even if the region?s hardworking Western observers broker a deal over the captive soldiers, the respite may be temporary. ?The reason for the lull in fighting is less because of the cease-fire than because of the weather,? says Anastasijevic. ?The issues underlying the conflict remain unresolved, but it?s difficult to fight in minus-20-degree temperatures. When the snows melt in a month or two, the war will probably resume.? And that will put Washington right back in its Balkan bind...
...which has seen a wave of attacks on Christians -- but instead of simply calling for the attacks to stop, Vajpayee issued a call for a national debate over religious conversion. ?India?s constitution guarantees the right to propagate one?s religion,? says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. ?The reason Vajpayee is raising the conversion issue is to put the opposition Congress party on the defensive, because its leader, Sonia Gandhi, is an Italian-born Catholic...