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...story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman...
...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 take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed as the fruits of an illegal search and thus not be admitted...
...potential for life found in normal skin cells, however, is of less concern. This inconsistency shows the difficulty of maintaining that the potential for human life should be treated with the same respect as a full-grown person. The opponents of research cloning are scrambling up a slippery slope...
...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 which they rest their arguments. By selectively maintaining that the potential for human life deserves protection, opponents of cloning take a principled position that is ultimately impractical. Thus, scientists should argue that the threshold for human life is much higher than a few cells in a dish. The possible medical benefits...
...days later, I was scrabbling up a steep scree slope to get a closer look at Koofai Nuamuri, the turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...