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...Hawaneen's wife, shrouded in a burqa, is allowed to kneel beside her son's tiny limbs. She weeps quietly as her young daughter lifts a cloth covering the dead boy and kisses his forehead. Then Hawaneen and his clansmen set off at a swift pace to the rocky cemetery. "My two other children are also sick, but what's the point of taking them to the clinic? They can't help," grieves Hawaneen, letting the empty aspirin strip fall from between his fingers into the wind...
...while all this fuss about his potentially improper involvement in pardon-seeking has Hugh blinking like a none-too-swift deer caught in exceptionally bright headlights, this 50-year-old lawyer has weathered criticism - and, yes, even embarrassment - before. Chances are good he'll make it through this latest flap as well...
British film stuntman Tim Lawrence was only 34 when he was diagnosed with the debilitating neurological condition Parkinson's disease six years ago. It meant a swift end not just to his parts in movies like Braveheart, Splitting Heirs and Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn...
...There is no reason to believe [Swift] will not be favorably disposed to our goals, which are education and research," said Jane H. Corlette, associate vice president of government affairs at Harvard...
Recently, after a monkey named ANDi was born carrying jellyfish genes, George Will predicted that genetic engineering would "end the human story" in a manner more swift and certain than nuclear war. Will's fear was not that genetic monsters or superviruses would destroy us, but that the genetic design of humans--the choice, before conception, to give a child certain traits--would eliminate our respect for human life. Will's concern, and that of many who agree with him, is not only that the consequences of genetic engineering may be harmful, but that the practice itself is a moral...