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...left that Republicans are "chicken hawks," pursuing the war for ideological reasons without any connection to the pain of it. And it will probably have a broader effect on McCain's credibility. Critics have accused McCain of pandering to the right in order to solidify his front-runner status, but the power of that argument would be diminished if McCain were seen steadfastly supporting a war even as it endangered his youngest...
...taking advantage of its ignorance, will spiral out of control, that technology will subsume humanity. Such fears have been poignantly crystallized in movies such as “Gattaca,” where the quest for genetic perfection leads to a new, scientific apartheid, or “Blade Runner,” in which cloning has blurred the line between human and non-human beyond recognition. The way that society has chosen to deal with that fear is to hold scientists at arms length, to label them “the other,” to borrow a phrase...
...sample, in hopes that it will disprove the initial result. But that is unlikely, experts say; second tests almost invariably tend to repeat the first results. If the findings are confirmed, Landis will be stripped of the win and the yellow jersey will go to the runner-up, Spain's Oscar Pereiro...
...field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner's aids. An instrument the size of a pebble measures your pace from a pocket inside one of Nike's specially designed shoes. The pebble streams data to a computer that keeps time and calculates caloric burn. Instead of making you buy a whole new computerized accessory, Nike and Apple decided to use a computer you may already own, an iPod nano...
...said that a China-Japan summit, which has not happened since 2001, would only take place once "political obstacles" had been overcome. In Japan, debate over who should succeed Koizumi has thus far been framed, almost exclusively, on the candidates? views on Yasukuni. Shinzo Abe, 51, the charismatic front-runner, has courted conservatives by vehemently defending a prime minister's right to worship wherever he likes - although he has recently become coy about whether he would go to Yasukuni if he were prime minister...