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...attempt to straighten the tower, builders try using thicker stones on the downward side...
...sure you have as much room to move your legs as possible?a good reason to store cabin baggage in the overhead compartment rather than under the seat in front of you where it can take up precious legroom. During the flight, drink lots of bottled water, avoid alcohol, straighten and move your legs and even consider wearing support stockings, which can improve blood flow in the veins. While some doctors suggest moving around the cabin every half-hour or so, many airlines recommend doing gentle exercise in your seat?both for safety reasons and to avoid getting...
...should grieving parents really be pursuing this route? "It's a sign of our growing despotism over the next generation," argues University of Chicago bioethicist Leon Kass. Cloning introduces the possibility of parents' making choices for their children far more fundamental than whether to give them piano lessons or straighten their teeth. "It's not just that parents will have particular hopes for these children," says Kass. "They will have expectations based on a life that has already been lived. What a thing to do?to carry on the life of a person who has died...
...should grieving parents really be pursuing this route? "It's a sign of our growing despotism over the next generation," argues University of Chicago bioethicist Leon Kass. Cloning introduces the possibility of parents' making choices for their children far more fundamental than whether to give them piano lessons or straighten their teeth. "It's not just that parents will have particular hopes for these children," says Kass. "They will have expectations based on a life that has already been lived. What a thing to do--to carry on the life of a person who has died...
While trying to straighten out LuLing's chaotic house, Ruth comes across a sheaf of papers written in her mother's graceful Chinese calligraphy. She recalls that her mother had given her a few such pages earlier, which are stuffed in a desk drawer. Ruth hires a translator and vows to read the whole batch of what her mother remembered to write down before she began to forget...