Word: scandalized
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...scandal highlighted the patchwork system that currently oversees the few labs conducting cutting-edge research on human embryonic stem cells. With no rules to regulate the field in the U.S., most labs here abide by regulations created by their own institution - while others overseas have to walk the line between the requirements of their own institutes and national laws that have been passed to govern certain parts of the field. (In South Korea, for example, it is now illegal to pay women to donate eggs...
...there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger did 15-year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then put him on trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...said to have given appointments to her lovers, three to four every day with intervals of a couple of hours in between." Perhaps none of this was true, but it added to her mystique, as did rumors of her bisexuality. Even her death had a whiff of scandal to it; Dalmia says it may have resulted from a botched abortion...
...Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi. Three weeks ago he participated for the second time at the annual Bilderberg meeting, an invitation-only gathering of the international business and political élite. Elkann also got high marks for his firm - and unusually public - response to the recent match-fixing scandal consuming Italy's top football club, Juventus, which the Agnelli family has owned since 1923. At the team's first match after evidence emerged that Juventus' former general manager Luciano Moggi had allegedly pressured referees, Elkann gathered reporters at the stadium to gracefully, but clearly, voice his no-confidence...
...charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal. In his farewell speech, borrowing from Othello, Haughey told the Irish parliament: "I have done the state some service and they know it." Numbers 7 Number of people whose deaths were attributed to excessive video-game playing last year, including a South Korean man who died after almost 50 straight hours...