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...horrific illnesses and life-shattering injuries, but at the cost of giving government sanction to the destruction of human embryos. Bush had searched both his soul and his 3-in.-thick briefing book. He had quizzed experts and ethicists and even the doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse of Texas prairie, the President talked about the dream of wiping out Alzheimer's disease and childhood diabetes but also of the nightmarish "hatcheries" of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The issue, Bush declared, "lies...
...Chinese money referred to as both yuan and renminbi. What's the difference? The latter is the official name of Chinese currency (translation: people's money). The former is the basic monetary unit, like the U.S.$1 note...
Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...
...Competition is intense for places in the Ku-ring-gai Unit for Gifted and Talented Students, based at St. Ives North School in Sydney. Parents of children who've sat the test and been rejected often won't go quietly. "I've come out of many conversations with my head reeling," says unit coordinator Tina Howard. Not that parents whose children are accepted necessarily relax. Many Year 6 parents become agitated as the entry test for selective high schools approaches each March, "because the fear of not getting into one of these schools after being in a program like this...
...Primal Scream—naked, sweaty and shrunken—I feel something similar. Here is an event where scrawny and studly, fat and misshapen, pock-marked and smooth, black and white can run together. We run not as isolated students, but as unique participants in an elite unit who have thrown social mores to the wind and let it all hang out. There is no public humiliation—the group protects the individuals. Primal Scream helped me realize the strength of community—and discovering that piece of veritas was certainly worth a frozen teste...