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...very pessimistic about our ability to reach a reasonable decision on this topic. And I base that pessimism on my attempts to find some kind of common ground among members of Congress. In terms of where we're heading, I think a fair guess is it will end in a stalemate. And I say that because the people who want to ban cloning don't want to stop the ban at reproductive cloning - they want to extend the ban to cover embryonic cloning and therapeutic cloning as well. They are not disposed to compromise, and of course the same...
...before the Hadera attack, a political analyst in the Israel daily Haaretz had set the scenario: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," wrote Amos Harel. "From the first reports about the assassination of Tul Karm's Raed Karmi, any Israeli or Palestinian alumnus of the past 15 months could come up with an accurate prognosis of what would happen: Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly...
...Where he went between [the Peabody and the bridge] is just a guess. He could have walked down Beale Street,” Ward said yesterday...
...Bias against married women is hardly new: As recently as the 1960's, it was routine for school boards across the country to fire female teachers as soon as they married. The assumption, I guess, was that it was only a matter of time before a married woman would start popping out the kids and of course this very inconvenient past-time would interfere with the fulfillment of her chosen profession...
...bulky as an IBM mainframe or as slender as a cigarette carton, as well as storage devices. All this iron runs on a variety of software: operating systems and protocols from Unix to Linux and, increasingly, Windows. There are battles over whose protocols are open to adaptation (guess where Windows stands?) and whether there ought to be more standardization. But those conflicts are being resolved by a vast new parallel business called Web services, which encompasses the software and technical expertise that enable companies to exchange data seamlessly...