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...issue of stem cells. "I regard it as a deeply vexing and serious moral question," he told the New York Times. Daniel Callahan, a colleague who attended the July Oval Office meeting, says he does not recall Kass's coming down one way or the other. "He seemed somewhat ambivalent on the topic," says Callahan. In one of his anticloning articles, however, Kass appears to oppose embryonic research in general. "By pouring our resources into adult stem-cell research," he writes, "...we can avoid the morally and legally vexing issues in embryo research...
...lunch, we were down to a few dozen names, and over the next few weeks Phil and the project's two main reporters, Alice Park and Andrea Dorfman, further whittled the list to 18. Any list of the best, of course, is somewhat subjective, but we're confident that everyone in this installment is at the top of their game...
...Though somewhat disappointed with the restriction on creating new cell lines--he's cultivating five right now--he's generally pleased with the Bush decision. "The field will now go forward. It won't be limited to just a few labs, even if there are only a few dozen cell lines," he says. "That's the most important thing." Such altruistic concern for the progress of his chosen science is characteristic of the man. Even before he was caught in the limelight, he went about his experiments so conscientiously that they set the ethical standard by which all research...
...vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev-vacation theory...
...having a problem putting down its guns, even though most of those it claims to represent have long since turned against violence. Over in Spain, the militant Basque separatists of the ETA present the same problem. NATO plans to disarm Albanian rebels in Macedonia appear somewhat optimistic, despite last week's political peace agreement. And the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad appear to have no shortage of young Palestinians willing to blow themselves up in order to make a bloody political point...