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Concerns about the civil liberties of Arab Americans stem in part from drastic steps the government took during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to INTERNMENT CAMPS. In an issue with a cover story on Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, TIME wrote of one of the first groups sent away...
...reproductive cloning,” in which a cloned embryo would actually be implanted in the womb and then brought to term. But “therapeutic cloning,” which involves creating embryos in a petri dish, letting them grow just long enough to extract stem cells, and then killing them, is being hailed as a morally acceptable—nay, laudable—step forward for what is inevitably referred to as “scientific progress...
...first human embryos created through cloning were produced. Though the embryos died even before having divided into eight cells, the research points to new advancements possible in the medical field. The cloning method, if further developed, could one day be used to create stem cells. These stem cells, the latest research suggests, may provide tissue to be used in a variety of transplants...
...University of Miami chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity have found themselves under intense scrutiny this week for their failure to show brotherhood with the Arab community. The largely Jewish fraternity is facing serious allegations of anti-Arab sentiment in the wake of Sept. 11. The accusations stem from a video circulating on campus which allegedly recorded the drunken rantings of a pledge screaming into the camera, “What are we going to do about these goddamned Arabs...
...made to look like it’s not pronouncing the classic put-down “penis-breath.” Instead, the pixels will be maneuvered to show the young actor, Henry Thomas, mouthing some substitute juvenile barb that Spielberg, who is now a parent, thinks will stem another tide of potty-mouthin’ E.T. acolytes...