Word: act
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...school board members don't acknowledge this when they take office, if they act on retaliation rather than facts, the future really will look bleak for the children of Kansas. Their education will be subject to a constant "us against them" fight whose outcome is entirely dependent on whoever is in power at a given time...
...Canadian Patent Act of 1869 defines an invention as "any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" that is new, useful and isn't obvious. Over the years the oncomouse case has revolved around whether animals should be considered "compositions of matter," "manufactures" or both...
...Courts are the wrong place to decide whether we should be patenting higher life forms," Swenarchuck said. "Our legislatures need to look at the Patent Act and the idea of invention and whether they intend it to cover living creatures...
Until that time, the ruling's critics say, Parliament's original intentions must stand--and in writing the 1869 Patent Act it did not intend that life would be patented...
...correct answer, of course. Killing people is a morally messy business. Whether we allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...