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...Branegan: Often times, that's useful. U.S. pressure provides an excuse for leaders on both sides to do things that own public may be reluctant to accept...
...producer Chris Lee, who began developing software to turn the video game Final Fantasy into a movie four years ago. "We have a couple of generations now that have grown up with gaming. Kids are used to living in a 360 degree digital universe, and they don't necessarily accept a flat background...
...surprise of many court watchers, the majority ruled in Kyllo's favor. And the dissenting Justices in the 5-4 decision made it clear that even if they were willing to accept "off-the-wall" technologies like infrared guns--which can pick up signals only from the outside of a building--they viewed with alarm newer "through-the-wall" devices that can see inside...
...justify standing in the way of cures for some of humanity's most dreaded diseases, you have to accept the right-to-life argument in its most extreme form. We're talking here about newly formed embryos. These are not fetuses with tiny, waving hands and feet. These are microscopic groupings of a few differentiated cells. There is nothing human about them, except potential--and, if you choose to believe it, a soul. Moreover, under the rules Bush is blocking, stem-cell research would not actually take the life of a single embryo. Researchers would use embryos that are being...
...Arroyo, say aides, was shattered. Earlier, Abu Sayyaf, a group that uses an Islamic banner to justify kidnapping, massacres and extortion, had given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away, Arroyo gave in to the rebels' demands?only to have them boast of beheading the Californian tourist anyway. Jeered Abu Sabaya: "It's up to you to find Sobero's head ... but the dogs may beat you to it." Speaking to diplomats after the 103rd Independence Day festivities, the diminutive...