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...bandage conundrum: Do you peel it slowly from your skin or rip it off all at once? Wound-care companies now offer a new generation of pain-free personal first-aid gear, replacing hair-pulling plastic strips with liquid bandages; breathable, waterproof gel sheaths; and gauze pads that stem blood loss quickly...
...China's citizens say graft and corruption are their top concerns, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. But despite a highly publicized national crackdown?Chinese newspapers are constantly filled with stories of big-name arrests and executions?Beijing appears unable to stem a flood tide. Individually, ordinary Chinese can do little to protect themselves. In the city of Yiyang in central Hunan province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because...
...minister, I cannot understand the debate over cloning and stem-cell research. Is it simple arrogance that makes one believe that life can be created by scientists? Be it an atom, a cell or a fetus, it was created by God. This fear that we will create life to destroy life is hilarious. Personally, I would rather the embryo, with no knowledge of this world and the pain it brings, be used to help millions than for a million babies to be born into a life of hatred, heartache, oppression, pain and violence. For in the end, it comes right...
Despite Krauthammer's protestations, cows are not people. Teasing stem cells from microscopic blastocysts is not in any way analogous to a "brave new world of fetal farming." Research cloning, more appropriately termed therapeutic nuclear transfer, carries enormous potential for alleviating dreaded human diseases. There is a very clear line between this research and what Krauthammer terms the inevitable next step: implanting such a blastocyst into a human womb. There is no reason to believe that this will necessarily occur. But even if such a procedure might eventually be performed in some renegade scientist's lab, should that be reason...
...Part of Taufik's problems stem from the perception of the company he keeps. The President's husband recently met Tomy Winata, one of the country's wealthiest ethnic-Chinese businessmen and a man known for his close ties to the gambling underworld. Taufik and some family members (but not Megawati) were vacationing on an island owned by Winata. Taufik also famously conducted a prolonged shopping spree in New York City with Jacob Nursalim, the nephew of Syamsul Nursalim, one of Indonesia's largest debtors. Indeed, as TIME wrapped up an interview with Taufik at his home on a recent...