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...genetics will lead to new treatments for disease and even to cures. But more controversial aims are in play. Scientists are close to screening human embryos for a wider range of congenital conditions; how long before we're selecting for intellect, optimism and ambition? Therapeutic cloning could yield versatile stem cells to replace diseased cells--if politics doesn...
Michael Duffy's story on the congressional inquiry into the causes of 9/11 was insightful, but I take issue with his dismissal of FBI-CIA turf battles as "silly bureaucratic rivalries" [NATION, Aug. 4]. Interagency rivalries and failure of cooperation generally stem from the same source: funding. The CIA and FBI must prove to Congress that they have been effective and deserve the budgets they have requested. The agency that openly shares information risks enabling another organization to crack the case. Until Congress establishes a method of budgeting that promotes cooperation over rivalry, we will continue to see linkage failures...
...Still, the South would clearly take an economic hit if North Korea were to collapse. Refugees might stream across the Demilitarized Zone, and Seoul would have to quickly provide aid to the Northerners in order to stem the tide while converting public buildings like schools into temporary shelters. Foreign investors might get spooked by the chaos and yank money from South Korea. Then there are the long-term problems of integrating the high-tech South Korean economy and the more primitive North Korean one. The new flood of cheap North Korean labor and land would potentially depress wages and property...
...charges faced by Byrne stem from a series of escalating confrontations he had with students over two days in the fall of 2001, unfolding outside the 2021 Commonwealth Ave. apartment of one of Trombly’s friends...
...many scientists outside government, in short, the glass seems half empty at best. For scientists like Dr. Elias Zerhoun, director of the National Institutes of Health, it's evidently half full. "Remember," he says, "that before the President made his decision, there was zero federal support for embryonic-stem-cell research." But with a potentially lifesaving technology like this one, half full may not be enough. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington