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...issue of the intrusion of government in medicine. There is a whole medical ethics debate about abortion which is often ignored when people start calling fetuses “babies.” This debate has many corollaries in and implications for the debate about cloning and stem cell research, and as such demonstrates that abortion is not the isolated moral issue that many abortion-rights opponents believe...
...fact, Fleischer's outburst was just the latest in a series of public relations "aberrations" to strike an Administration known for boot-camp discipline. A lot of the new confusion seemed to stem from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which is destined to become better known for the controversy it spawned than the report it issued. Two public-interest groups and the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, are suing the Administration for information about the doings of Cheney's gang. But Cheney and Bush are clutching to each Post-it note, insisting that Vice Presidents...
According to Andy Tiedemann at the University Development Office, the University’s conservative financial policies stem from a desire not to “erode the value of the endowment.” But when compared to extensive beachfront that is Harvard’s financial holdings, the amount of money that it would take to avoid raising tuition equals but a few grains of sand. If every student paid the additional $1,681, it would bring an extra $10.7 million to FAS next year. But, given that some students on financial aid will not have...
Cook says his intentions in writing Shock were twofold. “I wanted to underline the fact that this monetary economy is emerging for female eggs,” he says, “and I wanted people to know something about embryonic stem cell technology and the basics of therapeutic cloning.” The book does just that, at times relishing the details of the scientific minutia so lovingly that a non-biology concentrator can become a bit confounded. But the main idea is one anyone can grasp: The egg donation process is dangerous?...
...Cook says that with new advances in stem cell research, it may not be long before there is a cure for infertility—so long as the politicization of the issue doesn’t hamper researchers...