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...Those who oppose the research believe that an embryo is a human life from the moment of fertilization, and that destroying an embryo by extracting stem cells is tantamount to murder. Many of those set against embryonic stem cell research advocate using adult stem cells, but while scientists have had some success using stem cells culled from adults, they?ve found that embryonic stem cells hold particular promise. They are more easily molded, more susceptible to manipulation...
...life advocates, the moral cost of continuing such research outweighs any potential benefits. For scientists, however, the possibilities are both awe-inspiring and bewildering. No one denies the moral dilemma of the stem cell debate. But to turn back now, researchers say, would be tantamount to turning our backs on a bright, sustaining light because we are terrified of the shadows it creates...
...employer?s refusal to negotiate - a federal judge has ordered that employer, Seattle area drugstore chain Bartell Drug Co., to include oral contraceptives in the company?s prescription drug coverage plan. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled Tuesday that Bartell?s refusal to offer full benefit coverage to women was tantamount to sex discrimination. "Although the plan covers almost all drugs and devices used by men, the exclusion of prescription contraceptives creates a gaping hole in the coverage offered to female employees, leaving a fundamental and immediate health care need uncovered," Lasnik wrote in his opinion...
...ruled 6-3 in favor of the Good News Club of Milford, New York, granting the group, which urges children to "give God first place in your life," the right to meet after hours on public school grounds. The Milford school district had contended the group?s activities were tantamount to religious worship, and, citing separation of church and state, barred the club from using public school rooms for its meetings...
Flying a stolen plane over the Israel-Lebanon border on May 24 was tantamount to committing suicide for a young Lebanese joy-rider. That Israel forces shot down the single-engined Cessna 152 after the pilot refused to respond to attempts by Israeli aircraft to communicate with him is hardly surprising, given that the date is the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that its forces were on high alert against the possibility of attacks by the Hizballah guerrilla army that has continued to attack Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms area of the border...