Word: rule
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...admit the notion of human chimeras is still unnerving and worthy of debate, but we must not look at the issue as a slippery slope. Humankind (researchers and the rest of us alike) has always proceeded with some trepidation on genetic research, and caution is usually the rule of thumb. In fact, with the charged morality of the chimera issue, it is highly unlikely that any scientist would try to create a species with near-human intellect and even more inconceivable that they could do so with the hopes of monetary profit that Newman has in mind as motivation...
...That would be fine...because what I am describing is applicable in South Africa,too," said Guinier, reading her account of theincident from the book. "That is, the majorityshould rule, but it should rule in a way that isrespectful and that recognizes the interests ofthe minority in being part of the governingcoalition," Guinier read...
...course, I was aware that this is a relatively common ploy with low rates of success. But I intended to be the exception that proves the rule. In what I considered a particularly crafty tactic, I set my watch not to five minutes ahead--so easy to correct for the "real time"--but to the far more ambiguous seven minutes ahead. In this way, I succeeded in fooling myself to the extent that I even began showing up early. Yet there were limitations on the system. Because I rely on my clock rather than my watch while in my room...
...have their hands full managing the President, but there may well be greater tests. Under the Russian constitution, only one person can declare the President unfit to rule: the President himself. But what if Yeltsin becomes incapable of understanding that it is time to go? Yumashev and Dyachenko will be the first to see if this happens, and they will have to decide what to do. "I want to hope that the President's health will not lead to a political crisis," Berezovsky says diplomatically. But, he adds, the pair "are paying due attention to the situation, and will respond...
From Internet privacy to genetic testing, technology has raced ahead too fast for legal doctrine to keep up. And nowhere is the gap between what scientists have discovered and what judges must rule on greater than in the realm of artificial reproduction. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 frozen embryos--fertilized eggs no larger than a grain of sand--are being preserved in liquid-nitrogen canisters across the country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers...