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...public debate over stem cells is currently hindered by the absence of a common lexicon with which to delineate the profound ethical questions involved. For example: Are frozen embryos whole human beings, or are they somehow less than human? If the latter, when do embryos officially pass the threshold of “personhood”? Moreover, if blastocysts are not miniscule human lives, then what exactly are they...
...died in violence following the National Electoral Council's rejection of a petition calling for a referendum on Hugo Chávez's presidency. Although the opposition presented 3.1 million signatures in favor of the recall vote, the council declared only 1.8 million valid - 600,000 short of the threshold for triggering a ballot...
MEANWHILE IN SERBIA ... Every Vote a Winner Poll-weary Serbs, whose efforts to elect a new President have been thwarted three times in the past 15 months due to low voter participation, can finally see light at the bottom of the ballot box. Parliamentarians got round the 50% turnout threshold by simply abolishing it, paving the way for a new election as early as this month...
...case resolved in December, Harvard had found McGarr Services Inc. was wrongly representing itself as two separate companies—McGarr and White Glove Inc. By doing so, McGarr had avoided the $50,000 contract threshold, above which companies must match their employees’ wages and benefits to those of workers employed directly by Harvard. The two contracts totaled more than $50,000 in work, but McGarr employees received $9.95 an hour in February 2003 rather than the union wage of $11.85 an hour...
With about 300,000 members nationwide, the Green Party’s goal, Cobb said, is to have a membership that includes at least five percent of all registered voters. Many states require the Green Party to meet this threshold before permitting residents to affiliate themselves officially with the party...