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...fact, the Natalie posters, visually and contextually, make an opposite statement. They demonstrate that there is something qualitatively and experientially different about a one hour-old and an eleven week-old fetus. They indicate, rightly, that the termination of a pregnancy is more problematic in its later stages than in its early ones. And they only increase my resolve to make sure that those for whom abortion is the right choice can make this decision as early and as easily as possible. I only hope that, noting the manifold ways that the Bush administration has tried to curtail this right...
...their lost comrades. There are letters from the White House and the Pentagon, responding to his campaign last year to be allowed back on active duty, which, since he was 36, required a waiver. And there are pictures of his wife Anna and their sons D'Artagnan and 7-week-old Alexander, whose world he wants to fix. Beets thinks it's time to take the fight to America's enemies. He does not talk about his unit's imminent deployment to Kuwait as just another training exercise...
Sandel first explained that a week-old embryo, or blastocyst, is killed when stem cells—embryonic cells that can be developed into any kind of tissue—are extracted from...
...million fans go out and watch some of the best drivers in the world racing full pelt for three days over narrow, twisting public roads. But because of the distances involved in following the race, television coverage of the sport even as recently as five years ago consisted of week-old footage. Since David Richards' company, International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), bought the TV and commercial rights to the WRC two years ago, bringing the sport to the public has been transformed. Today, television companies using satellite communications produce same-day programs editing together helicopter and trackside shots with on-board...
...begin helping patients, scientists like those at Advanced Cell Technologies will first have to overcome a hostile President and convince an uneasy Congress. Those who oppose abortion or believe that life begins at conception have campaigned vigorously against the research. But many Americans do not believe that a week-old embryo—an entity that does not have thoughts, feelings or the ability to experience pain—possesses rights or makes moral claims. These questions are not unprecedented. The procedure of in vitro fertilization, which has been used for decades to help infertile couples conceive children, similarly creates...