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...degree, that's true. Palin's pro-life credentials are impeccable - she opposes abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape and incest, except when a delivery will result in death. And her strong, open religious faith will make her the perfect person to reach out to conservative Evangelicals, who still don't fully trust the Republican nominee. But McCain and his aides may not want to say hallelujah just yet. While Palin is inspiring rhapsodies from the lions of the Christian right, her appeal to more moderate and younger Evangelicals - as well as independent swing voters...
...planets). Williams wrote in an e-mail: "I have come to see that in their early days, new technology and scientific breakthroughs often serve as Rorschach tests - a phenomenon about which we have little concrete understanding, onto which contemporary social anxieties (and dreams) can readily be projected. As a result we find (often polarized) utopian and dystopian visions being articulated." Humanity will certainly survive the LHC's experiment, Williams added, but so too will its darkest fears about its own destructive potential, and hope for its future...
Some of the latest weapons in Big Pharma's arsenal result from that understanding. Gleevec, for instance, treats one form of leukemia by zeroing in on the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, that part of the genome that directs bone marrow to keep making abnormal white blood cells. Because of drugs like Gleevec and therapies such as bone-marrow and stem-cell transplants, there are 12 million people walking around today who are classified as survivors...
...murkier than in the Aug. 22 strike on the western Afghan village of Azizabad. What is not in dispute is that U.S. special forces on the ground ordered an AC-130 gunship to attack at least two houses after they and their Afghan allies came under fire. The result of the attack, however, is far from certain. The Pentagon concluded that up to 35 insurgents and as many as seven civilians were killed. But the Afghan government, backed by a United Nations inquiry, puts the toll at 76 to 90 civilians, including 60 children. That would make it the deadliest...
...artificially inflate their prices. "Publishing companies generally don't disclose prices to faculty," says Luke Swarthout, a higher education advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The person buying the books isn't the person paying for them - it's what we call a 'broken market.'" The result is a price increase free-for-all, with publishing companies charging inflated prices for new textbook editions on subjects that haven't changed. "Of course you'd update the computer science textbooks every year, but do you really need a brand new edition of a calculus book?" asks Swarthout. "Calculus hasn...