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Stem-cell research is likewise directed toward the noblest of ends: curing debilitative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and diabetes. The instruments of this research are not adult men; they are microscopic human embryos in the “blastocyst” stage of development. The embryos are dissected for their stem cells—cells that can potentially form any kind of tissue in the body. In the process, the embryos are killed...
...deal if bin Laden were granted the honor of martyrdom. Muslims believe that martyrs do not die; they simply move to a better place, where they gain rewards, while their martyrdom inspires young men and women back on earth to seek the same fate in the service of the noblest of causes...
...France still enjoys a mystique rivaling that of cinema. Authors like Bernard-Henri Lévy and 2001 Goncourt prizewinner Jean-Christophe Rufin are megacelebrities, and book-themed talk shows are standard TV fare. Notes Pierre Assouline, editor of Lire magazine: "The French have always felt writing was the noblest form of communication, and most honest kind of reflection. To write is to live, but to be published is to exist before the world." The rentrée littéraire is the high point of the publishing year, a sort of textual Cannes that this fall will feature...
...could treat his female subjects with measureless respect. One of the finest examples of this in his work, and in this show, is his portrait of the Duchess of Osuna with her husband and family, 1787-88. Related to half the noblest clans in Spain, she was the most cultivated, educated and liberal woman of her age: patron of writers and artists (including, notably, Goya), with her own theater where new plays by the leading dramatists of the day were given, her own chamber orchestra to play Haydn and Boccherini to her guests, and a deep involvement with issues...
...gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe to fanaticism...