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...challengers--are running against Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu. If no one gets at least 50% of the vote on Nov. 5, the race goes to a Dec. 7 runoff. Some polls have Landrieu slightly below the 50% mark, although her campaign says its polling shows her slightly above that threshold...
...farm, to those “long forgotten and suddenly remembered places.” For instance, the foci of his poem “Lightenings,” which became the night’s case study in composition, are the recalled image of a beggar on a threshold, Heaney’s feeling that the world had become “unroofed” after his parents’ deaths and his memories of playing marbles as a child. Mix thoughtfully and voila. “Suddenly you are like a pharoah,” he sweeps...
...cloning debate? They need to make the opponents of cloning face up to slippery slope on which they rest their arguments. By selectively maintaining that the potential for human life deserves protection, opponents of cloning take a principled position that is ultimately impractical. Thus, scientists should argue that the threshold for human life is much higher than a few cells in a dish. The possible medical benefits of research cloning are enormous. Instead of delaying scientific advances, the government should agree to reasonable regulations...
...Secretary of the Treasury from 1995–1999. This may not fit into the framework of your question, but I would say that I don’t think anybody knows anything for certain. Once you recognize the principle of uncertainty, you’ve passed the threshold through which decisions can be made. So if by “What don’t you know?” you mean, “What don’t you have certainty about?” I would say that the principle of uncertainty applies to all things...
...does the petition single out Israel and ignore violations of human rights committed by other countries? This is a strange criticism, because all social, political and human rights problems must be tackled one by one, as they arise. Protests are initiated when some threshold of concern is reached. The increase of settlement activity, suicide bombings and massive invasion of the West Bank propelled us to take action...