Word: vacuums
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...filled the power vacuum? Well, everyone...
...been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists steeled themselves against the backlash they feared would obstruct a promising field of research--and close off options to the infertile couples the original...
...political equation in Haiti appear to have become intertwined with crime. That's why the question of what comes after Aristide is very scary: The political opposition seems rather weak now in comparison to the rebels. If Aristide does step down or falls, there will be a power vacuum and right now it looks like that vacuum could be filled by people with rather nefarious connections...
...While moves to loosen the U.S. grip over Iraq's immediate political future remain on track, just how the vacuum left by the planned termination of Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30 is filled - and how and by whom the security arrangements to guarantee eventual elections and keep a lid on the increasingly worrying centrifugal tendencies - are increasingly open questions. Right now, the old plan (three months old, to be precise) appears to be redundant, but there is no sign yet of any new one. Nor is it clear, yet, what the respective roles of the Bush administration...
...Forbidding Talent Stage actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen performed on Broadway for more than 60 years. Although her death [Milestones, Jan. 26] will leave a vacuum in the theater world, the many talented students from HB Studio, the acting school she and her husband Herbert Berghof co-founded, carry on her legacy. After Hagen won the Tony Award as 1962's best actress, we described her stage presence...