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...Moscow last week to try to calm things down, was greeted by an angry Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, who denounced U.S. policy to Cohen's face and in front of a group of reporters. Sergeyev told Cohen that America's "rigid and uncompromising" position could lead to instability and unforeseen consequences. Cohen replied that the "so-called compromises" Russia has proposed do nothing to solve the problem of Saddam. Cohen went on to ask about reports, first published by the Washington Post, that Russia had offered to sell Iraq machinery that could be used to produce bioweapons and that Russians...
...utilizing such enhanced methods of fertility, we are going against the very basic principles of evolution. If the aim of evolution is to screen out unfit genes from a population and aid the perpetuation of superior genes, artificially induced fertility may bring with it a multitude of unforeseen repercussions. Regardless of how tempting reproductive therapy is, we won't know the negative side effects of this technology until we come to a stage at which we may not be able to do much about them. RASIKA WICKRAMASINGHE Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka...
While all these new techniques could mean more reproductive choices for the infertile, they could also create tricky ethical and legal issues. Indeed, almost every clinical advance in assisted reproduction leads to unforeseen dilemmas. Take ICSI, which on its face seems utterly benign. In some cases, male infertility may be caused by a genetic defect; helping a man with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children...
...which is intended in part to deregulate long-distance service across America and to help subsidize telecommunications hook-ups for local libraries and schools--may create an unforeseen side effect: higher rates for Harvard students...
...described "medley of my hit," "Constant Craving." In a fantastic piece of theater, lang followed "Constant Craving" with Patsy Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," which she sang while sitting at a cafe table brought in especially for that song. But most moving of all was "Infinite and Unforeseen," a song about finding love in the most obvious of places and finding home in one's own backyard. She prefaced this climactic performance with a dedication to "friends and lovers who are dying everyday." "In this world," she said, "where we live as profoundly or as unprofoundly...