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...Ashcroft's nomination, there's very little on the foreseeable horizon at Justice involving any of those hot-button issues. Instead, the department faces a docket heavy with antitrust issues, including the ongoing Microsoft case and various pending airline mergers. In the coming months, Ashcroft will also get to weigh in on a few pieces of tobacco legislation...
Venture capital and technology moguls have been quick to weigh in on Ginger, saying that the invention could revolutionize urban planning and change people's daily life worldwide...
Indeed Pittman is beginning to win the grudging respect of early doubters. He has formed a series of committees across divisions and a council of capos at which top executives meet every three weeks to weigh integration progress. They are gradually enforcing a new plan for action that encourages division managers to think and act more corporately, as opposed to pursuing purely their unit's interests...
Another collaboration, with the Department of Defense, has produced a surveillance micro-aircraft with a wingspan of only 6 in. Equipped with a camera, it can fly at speeds of up to 43 m.p.h. And in the works, MacCready says, is an even more diminutive craft that will weigh only half an ounce, including controls, camera and transmitter...
...issues but also their probable decisions on future ones. While we don't know for sure exactly what those issues will be, the signs are clear that we will face questions about genetic manipulation, cloning, euthanasia, artificial intelligence and the creation of entirely new species. How will national leaders weigh the moral aspects of these questions? Probably not too differently from the way they view other issues of human life and dignity. Attitudes toward abortion are a key. Given the lack of political consensus in this regard, it's hard to see what the government may allow in the future...