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...Pope to Nancy Reagan in their arguments over how best to balance protecting human life against relieving human suffering. Supporters of the tight Weldon ban warned of embryo farms and headless humans cloned to harvest their organs. "Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation," declared Tom DeLay. Those favoring Greenwood's more liberal guidelines warned of America becoming a theocracy, where a minority's conviction could block research to benefit millions. "If your religious beliefs will not let you accept a cure for your child's cancer, so be it," argued...
...section of the Great Lakes basin. "There are places even in New York State that are crazy for water," steamed Mayor William Ruoff, who added that inquiries had come from as far away as Texas and Switzerland. "Why shouldn't we help them when we have water to spare?" Not to mention village coffers to line. At current bulk-water prices of $2 per 1,000 gal. for shipping within the U.S., Webster stood to earn as much as $2 million a year from the scheme...
Opponents say it's not the profit they object to but the precedent Webster's plan would set. The Great Lakes basin contains 18% of the world's freshwater, though that doesn't necessarily mean there is water to spare. In a 1999 report, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission warned that levels in lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped 22 in. from the previous year--"the most precipitous drop in recorded history," says the IJC's Frank Bevacqua--and last year the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that levels would fall an additional...
...SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...
Peer pressure can hit lower-income families especially hard. George Valadez, a hot-dog and beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field, has sole custody of his three young kids. His concept of being a good provider is to pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held...