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...Kinsley said the moral dilemma over embryonic stem cells is not real and never was. That is not the view of James Thomson, who was the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells and who asserted that "if human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died from the disease, and my brother battles it every...
...movie has turned Neville into a soldier-scientist (and former TIME cover boy), seeking a cure for the virus in the basement of the lavish Washington Square townhouse he has turned into a fortress (and where, don't ask me why, he sleeps in the bathtub, with his dog). So now he's Jonas Salk, and Jesus too, ready to give his life so that others may live again. It's in the last half-hour that I Am Legend imports new elements that both propel the story to its explosive climax and just aren't as compelling...
...value doesn't even have to be that high - a new report by WHRC found that it might cost as little as $10 per sq km in some areas to make conservation pay better than destruction. "That's cheap by today's standards," says Daniel Nepsted, a senior scientist with WHRC...
...recounted that when asked what place Wald, as a scientist, had speaking out against the war he replied, “I am a biologist. My business is life.” According to Elijah Wald, his father felt it was his duty was to stop the war. His activism led to multiple arrests at protests, as well as making it onto Richard Nixon’s “enemy list...
...Discomfort in the Lab Michael Kinsley said the moral dilemma over embryonic stem cells is not real and never was [Dec.10]. That is not the view of James Thomson, who was the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells and who observed that "if human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died with the disease...