Word: slipperyness
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Imminent war, imminent stimulus, the long-awaited capitulation-cum-rebound - take your pick and call me in the morning. But something rode in late Wednesday to the rescue of what was about to be a very depressing selloff. Monday?s unflinching sellers had taken something of a breather on Tuesday...
Bush has compared the decision about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to a decision to commit troops to battle. This is biology spilled down a slippery slope; the arguments divide and subdivide and seemed to promise only injury to a rookie President not known for taking on the...
During his deliberations, Bush was reportedly worried when a Virginia institute announced it had collected sperm and egg donations to create embryos specifically for developing stem cells for research. Researchers argued it was more honest to create embryos solely for research. Bush saw a slippery slope.
Stem-cell research will one day be a boon to humanity. We owe it to posterity to pursue it. But we also owe posterity a moral universe not trampled and corrupted by arrogant, brilliant science. It is precisely because of the glittering promise of stem-cell research that we need...
As for the in-car speed trap, I'm on the reverse of a slippery slope: Let's have more of it. If Acme in Connecticut can do this, why can't the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration get this in all cars? Road accidents kill 42,000 Americans a...