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That impulse is enough to put the Roman Catholic Church in full revolt; the Vatican has long condemned any research that involves creating and experimenting with human embryos, the vast majority of which inevitably perish. The church believes that the soul is created at the moment of conception, and that the embryo is worthy of protection. It reportedly took 104 attempts before the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born; cloning Dolly took more than twice that. Imagine, say opponents, how many embryos would be lost in the effort to clone a human. This loss is mass murder, says David...
...that under the French Golden Arches, they'd get French meat that came "from the farm" (rather than from some factory or laboratory). Clearly, the plucky little farmer had managed to don the mantle of Astérix, the cartoon character whose mythical David-vs.-Goliath fight against the Roman occupiers symbolizes French national pride. Some 45,000 people from all over the country crowded into Millau for a protest rally during his trial - and the local McDonald's kept its doors closed throughout the two days of hearings...
...that love and jealousy are two sides of the same emotional coin. This lesson appears in the history of Valentine's Day itself. The legend of St. Valentine reads that an early Christian bishop was imprisoned and executed for marrying young couples in violation of a decree by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Claudius believed that marriage was preventing his young soldiers from being adequately militaristic. He was a jealous husband, demanding his soldiers' hearts in their entirety, construing a loyalty to their lovers as a betrayal of his army...
...employing Reverend Graham so much in the inaugural ceremony, more so than in past years," says Susan Brunka '03, a Roman Catholic, "President Bush necessarily excluded a large part of the population that does not adhere to that religion. I thought it was an even more polarizing move than his presidential race had been up to that point...
...Noted "No one, for any reason, can kill in the name of God." POPE JOHN PAUL II, in a New Year's sermon in the Vatican, marking the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace...