Word: slipperyness
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If there's any consolation for horrified Americans watching the drama of the sniper slayings unfold, it's that now, more than ever in history, officials have the skills to catch so slippery a killer. Even as the shooter--or shooters--taunted investigators by picking off more victims last week...
The basic legal premise that one is innocent until proved guilty seems to be ignored by the Wilmington, Del., police who are detaining innocent people on the street in high-crime areas and taking their pictures to file in a database [LAW, Sept. 23]. While police have the right to...
The ethical issue arises from the potential contained within every human cell—including those in your mouth—to produce a genetically identical human being. This potential has dominated the contemporary debate about cloning. The procedure involves taking all the DNA from one cell and inserting it...
How can scientists (all of whom on the committee voted to allow cloning research) win back the trust politicians and avoid being remembered (or mis-remembered) in history as the mistreated Leeuwenhoeks of the cloning debate? They need to make the opponents of cloning face up to slippery slope on...
But after last week's legislative debacle - which saw the death of a Senate bill that would have given a drug benefit to the neediest seniors - the prescription politics that have so favored Democrats in the past are suddenly getting slippery for them. The Republican- controlled House passed a drug...