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Novel approaches to babymaking seem to be coming at us so fast that we hardly have time to digest one before the next one hits--test-tube babies, egg donation, surrogacy, cloning and now sex selection. And just as with earlier methods, the new sperm-separation technique announced last week has triggered plenty of ethical concern. Only a few critics have argued that tampering with nature to avoid a sex-linked genetic disease should be taboo. But plenty have expressed misgivings about using the new technology more casually, to balance families, or simply because parents prefer boys or girls. Such...
...give him the benefit of the doubt until all the evidence is in. They know that juries are supposed to go slow, weigh the arguments and do justice, no matter how long it takes. When the defendant is the President and the charges without precedent, the ultimate test for him is no less a test...
Before it is all over, the really hard test won't be whether legal scholars reach some consensus on whether Clinton's conduct met the standard for high crimes and misdemeanors; or whether Republicans would rather a weakened President Clinton serve out his term than an energized President Gore; or whether the commentariat declares that Clinton is a dead man. The hard test is whether in 50 years Americans will look back at 1998 and say that we raised the bar for public office so high that only saints need apply, or that we dropped it so low that moral...
...consequential process short of declaring war; to remove a duly, freely and fairly elected President of the United States because he had--as he has admitted--an improper, illicit relationship outside his marriage. Having such a relationship is wrong... But such acts do not even approach the Constitutional test of impeachment--"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors...
RECORD BREAKERS One reason Mark McGwire's feat has so captured the public's imagination is the record's totemic power: in 71 years, it has been broken only twice. Here are some records of Ruth's era, and a look at how they have withstood the test of time...