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Dyck said he believes Paul was "sadly out of step" with the times when he forbade Catholics to use artificial means of contraception--a decision that brought considerable criticism from liberal Catholics--but added that the Pontiff rightly "saw population problems as largely problems of social justice," and encouraged governments to work together to solve them...
...future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Afterward I would conclude the negotiations on Sinai. I do not believe we can reach agreement with the Egyptians on Sinai without having reached an agreement in principle on the future of the West Bank and Gaza. The next step would be to announce our preference for a territorial compromise that will comprise two major elements?the principle of withdrawal from sections of the West Bank on the one hand and secure boundaries for Israel on the other. I believe the principle of withdrawal would help other Arabs to come...
Once federal money starts flowing, it almost never stops. Though Impact Aid was designed primarily to cover only uniformed service personnel, Congressmen from districts without military installations also wanted their constituencies to benefit, and step by step they found ways for them to do so. Over the years they expanded the program to include Indians and all Federal Government workers, even those who did not reside on federal land and thus paid local property taxes, and children living in federally financed public housing projects. The program, which originally covered 512,000 children, now blankets 2.4 million. So long...
...early 1960s, British Biologist John B. Gurdon took the technique a step further by replacing the nuclei of unfertilized eggs with the nuclei of cells that had differentiated into intestinal cells of young tadpoles. Some of the resulting cloned tadpoles matured into adult frogs. There have since been reports of successful cloning with nuclei from adult frog cells, but researchers have found that the best results are obtained by using the nuclei from cells of frogs in the early stages of embryonic development. The nuclei of adult animal cells are generally considered poor cloning material, possibly because many...
...Dracula tale," said Holmes, "stretches credulity to the breaking point. It actually has me saying modestly, the monster was 'one step ahead of me, as usual.' The fiend would never have been a step ahead...