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...University of Chicago bioethicist, to head an advisory panel on stem-cell research. Kass's visibility was already on the rise. He'd been morphing from political thinker to political player, largely because of his passionate opposition to human cloning. He has written two widely read articles on the topic for the New Republic and testified persuasively before Congress. In July he attended a crucial meeting at which Bush moved toward his decision to allow only limited federal funding of stem-cell research...
...DEATH DO US PART: PW predicts press attention for "Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America?s Future" by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bruce Shapiro (New Press; October). "This will be a must-read for anti-death penalty advocates...FORECAST: A hot political topic and high-visibility father-and-son authors guarantee media attention for this that should generate at least an initial spike in sales...
...wants to bring her MTV audience over, though, and their moms with them. Lewis, says her producer Mary Duffy, intends to be an intergenerational "conduit of information" about hot-button topics like school violence, depression and teen sex--a topic Lewis raised at MTV, in true confessional-host mode, by talking about a temporary vow of celibacy she took. "So many young girls stopped me in the street then and told me they made different choices [about having sex]," she recalls...
...started out as a bit of a scam. A few weeks ago, I casually suggested to my editor that I write a column on online reading clubs. "They're really interesting, and there are tons of them," I said, after conducting a seven-minute search on the topic. "Good idea," he replied, much to my amazement. Yippee! Now I could spend a couple of weeks reading and talking about mysteries, silly novels and lofty literature, all in the name of service journalism...
...small problem: while there are thousands of online book clubs for discussing, not buying, books, I quickly learned that most have no focused topic to discuss. What's worse, many are virtual ghost towns long since abandoned by their participants. Unwilling to admit failure--or admit how little time I had spent "researching" this idea--I plowed through dozens of clubs until I found some winners...