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...both admirers and critics around the globe now refer to as "Zapatero's Spain." Since his March 2004 electoral victory, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has pushed through a series of social policies - from gay marriage and adoption to easier divorce proceedings and increased stem-cell research - that have made him a lightning rod in the ongoing Western debate over family values. Disciple And for many participants in that debate, Benedict has become the anti-Zapatero. With a fierce intellect and clear ideas about fixing Catholicism's troubles on its home Continent, Benedict sees Spain...
...latest novel by British author Will Self, the Knowledge alone will not save your life. It fails to warn Dave Rudman, the book's cabbie hero, that junk food, booze and pills are not the best fuel for the long, lonely hours of a night shift. Nor can it stem the drip feed of [an error occurred while processing this directive] cynicism that comes with relentlessly crawling over the skin of the city in the company of "fares" whose primary wish is to get somewhere else quick. When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange...
...cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth averaging more than 6% a year has produced a cumulative expansion of 65%. High oil prices are the main reason. Still, says Roderic Lyne, a former British ambassador to Moscow, "the boom doesn't stem from oil alone. Genuine entrepreneurs have built good businesses in telecom, information technology, retail, brewing, food processing and consumer credit." A government that was broke under President Boris Yeltsin has had six budget surpluses in a row, just agreed to speed repayment of its foreign debt, and has socked away...
...goals of stem cell research are widely endorsed by scientists and diverse scientific societies, but recognizing that in order for scientists to be seen acting in the best interest of science and the public, ISSCR called for guidelines for ethical conduct," said George Daley, chair of the task force and a stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston...
...guidelines will be, once they are passed, remains to be seen. Neither NAS nor ISSCR has any enforcement authority, but ISSCR hopes that by taking a leading role, it will promote other groups - and perhaps even governments - to join them and streamline the guidelines to ensure that human embryonic stem cell research is conducted in a safe and ethical way. "The fact that ISSCR now has a draft means that the international research community now has a common language," says Jan Helge Solbakk, a task force member from the University of Bergen in Norway. "When we have a common language...