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...made-to-order embryos for stem-cell research, and another in Massachusetts is cloning embryos for the same purpose, it's hard not to wonder: Is federal money really necessary? No matter what Bush decides, stem-cell research is sure to continue. But federal funding would dramatically change the scope of this research, widening the circle of scientists involved and most likely accelerating the rate at which cures are found...
...Look, Kerry Danes is a smart man within a narrow scope," says his present lawyer Ted Tzovaras, who is paid by Jardine Securicor. "But when it comes to business, he's completely naive." Also on the advice of the Gem Mining lawyer?who has since fled Laos?Danes cosigned a letter from Jeppesen accusing members of the Laos government of corruption, greed and collusion with the disgruntled investors. The move infuriated the government. Kerry, belatedly realizing his mistake, stopped representing the company...
...write anything about Katharine Graham? Ah, but that’s exactly it. Compared to the scope of a life as grand as Katharine Graham’s, I was just a little girl in Washington who wanted to be a journalist. There were—are—lots of us. We watched...
...that "the Serbian people are not on trial here. It is Slobodan Milosevic as an individual who will now face trial." But beginning with Milosevic's arraignment Tuesday, the sheer sensation of the trial will thrust many long-concealed crimes into the light and force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds Milosevic responsible...
...argument against price caps is that they do infinitely more harm than good, as Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon discovered when they allowed government bureaucrats to clog the gears of a free market. Price caps, says Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, are merely a formula for "an increase in the scope, duration and frequency of blackouts...