Word: vaines
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...divisive. Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has called the protesters "terrorist-sympathizing agitators." But at a time when 56% of the respondents in a CNN poll say they think the war is going poorly, this wandering mother has tapped into a national well of worry: Are our troops dying in vain? "People were looking for something to do," says Sheehan. Now they are calling to see whether they can sign over their Social Security checks...
...when the going gets tough. Even if tough means that soldiers are going to die." Harting thinks that instead of protesting, Sheehan should take solace in knowing that a soldier's job is to follow the President no matter what. "Her son's life could never have been in vain," she says. "It's sad she can't see that...
When it comes to malpractice, the medical community seems open to experimentation. Limits on damages for pain and suffering, like the $250,000 federal cap that President George W. Bush has tried in vain to get through Congress, are increasingly seen as little more than a Band-Aid: recent studies cast serious doubt that such caps would make malpractice-insurance premiums cheaper. Meanwhile, long-term options, like a no-fault system with specialized medical courts and expert judges, are still largely in the theoretical stage...
...first is not very soon. The Korean achievement proves that cloning a dog is possible, not that it's easy. Indeed, billionaire John Sperling, who co-founded the cleverly named Genetic Savings & Clone (GS&C), of Sausalito, Calif., has spent seven years and more than $19 million trying in vain to clone a dog. Texas A&M researcher Mark Westhusin, whose team cloned a cat on its second try in 2001, abandoned the dog-cloning project several years ago. When the company approached reproductive physiologist George Seidel Jr. of Colorado State, he wouldn't even...
...Grimm, it was Gilliam who nearly cracked up, but the strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French...