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Despite not being one enthralled with individual awards, Clemente will have to accept the Crimson's apology as we name him the Athlete of the Week...
...most of those who oppose genetic engineering do so with an eye to the modifications it allows. Preventing diseases is one thing, but the same procedure can also be used to prevent any condition the parents find inconvenient. Assuming such traits are controlled by genes, would it be acceptable to prevent manic depression, or even (to shy away from controversy) homosexuality? If we endorse genetic engineering, would we have to accept a world where children are made to order, with good looks, smarts and Aryan features to boot...
...gone from saying they're so close to doing a peace deal with the Palestinians that it was really just a matter of a few weeks of negotiation, to saying saying there's no chance of a deal and Labor might as well go into a unity government and accept Sharon's plan of making interim deal after interim deal. Perhaps when they were emphasizing that a deal was, they weren't being forthcoming on where the gaps were. Now it suits them to play down the possibilities that may have been there. What it comes down to is that...
...mother will not talk to her. "If you are not even accepted by your own family," says Magwazi, the volunteer home-care giver from Durban's Sinoziso project who visits Laetitia, "then others will not accept you." When Laetitia ventures outdoors, neighbors snub her, tough boys snatch her purse, children taunt her. Her own kids are tired of the sickness and don't like to help her anymore. "When I can't get up, they don't bring me food," she laments. One day local youths barged into her room, cursed her as a witch and a whore and beat...
...grownups, however, females are generally more likely than men to accept mental-health treatment. Julie Bloch learned she had ADHD the same way many other women do: she took her young son for treatment, and the psychiatrist suggested she consider a twofer. "I had never thought about it before," says Bloch, 47, a sales executive in the San Francisco area. "I was always different. I didn't have a lot of focus. But I didn't really think adults could have ADHD...